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I- KAMRAN’s Blog: Dedicated to the Common Good- aiming to be a source of hope and inspiration; enabling us all to move from despair to hope; darkness to light and competition to cooperation. “Let the beauty we love be what we do.”-Rumi
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‘What the left needs is an account of how the suffering we experience in our personal lives stems from capitalist values, and to replace this system with one built on values of love and caring’
A Time for Reflection and a Time for Soul searching
Last night, the politics of fear and grievances won and progressiveness failed. Already many millions of words have been written on why the Progressive parties lost the election, on what went wrong; and moreover, how we might steer the path to progressiveness which might encourage us to take action in the interest of the common good.
I was searching for some answers myself. And then, I remembered a gem of an article I had read by a good friend of mine, Rabbi Michael Lerner, the editor of Tikkun Magazine, addressing the same question about the loss of elections by the Progressives in the US.
I returned to the article and read it again. I found that it answers my question/s: Why and How the Progressives are losing elections to the right-wingers, and moreover, what the Progressives need to do to overcome their shortcomings and get their message out.
I have noted some key excerpts from the article below. At times I have quoted them directly and at other times I have paraphrased Rabbi Lerner’s words and sentences to relate them to the UK- when I changed the US to the UK, or Americans to British, etc.
- “The challenge is to agree on how to use our powers for the common good”
- 7 May 2015: The Day of Hope for Common Good Transforming our Country
- World Congress of Faiths 2015 Annual Lecture: London School of Economics
- “We’re teaching our kids wrong: They worship wealth and celebrities”
- Nature the Best Teacher: Re-Connecting the World’s Children with Nature
- In Praise of ‘Enoughness’ and 'Lagomist' Economy
- Policies must be for the common good- Lord Harries of Pentregarth