For four decades conservatives, financed by unscrupulous billionaire Kochs & Scaifes, abetted by Murdoch’s evil media empire, have decried government and pushed policies to slash taxes, starving it of the funds needed to maintain the public realm as a decent place we can all be proud of.  Grover Norquist boasted long ago “I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.”  Income from corporate taxes are half what they were, as is the top rate of income tax.  Meanwhile progressives have done a lamentable job defending the very idea of government and failed to use the power of govt to deliver economic benefits to the working class.  It's time to fight back & reclaim the idea that a nation built as a bastion of individual rights rests on the understanding that those rights can only be defended in a functioning community.  The first words in our founding document are We the People, not "I George."