Lots of broad generalizations here. Don't assume everybody
is middle class, in the professions, in the business (of
audio building for profit,) married, white etc. etc. or anything
else maybe especially male. It's bad for the group and
exclusionary.

I got politically motivated because of Abu Ghraib and have been
since. While I always vote, I felt shamed by what I saw.

So I take double offense when I see remarks on here about
what we should do to those so and so's blah blah and blah.

Recent books on my reading table:

What's The matter With Kansas? by Thomas Frank
Moral Politics George Lakoff
Banana Republicans Rampton and Stauber

Audioroundtable is on my Bookmarks toolbar next to Democracy Now!
streaming weblink from Pacifica radio.