Leave the 'Christians' to the Christians

If 80% of the 20% of voters who placed moral values at the top of their list of reasons for voting voted for Bush, and your average progressive voter is an avowed secular humanist, and moral values are actually part of the language of the christian right, and progressives have bought into the idea that liberal is actually a dirty word, I say leave the conversation over moral values to progressive Christians.

The rest of us should focus our energy on the invisible issue of economic justice. As the right has successfully coopted all of the language of 20th-century populism and liberalism they have removed class struggle from the common discussion of politics.

Economic justice is the groundfloor for true progress in the modern world. As long as the majority are focused on blurry moralism let the rest of us begin to battle over the essentials of life in this world.