Zack Exley—Kerry’s Internet manager, co-organizer of the RootsCamp a couple of weeks ago, and co-organizer of the New Organizing Institute that’s putting young’uns into the field as political organizers—wants a revolution.

It’s not that he’s calling for the overthrow of the government or death to capitalism. In fact, what he’s really callling on us to do is to expand our vision past wondering whether we should have a single-payer health insurance or whether we should stop serving macaroni and cheese in school cafeterias. So, there are no specifics in his call, beyond a passing light reference to tri-lingual kids breathing fresh air. But, I know from having had dinner with him a week or so ago that he wants us to be thinking about how radically different the world can be now because of the confluence of historic factors. We can work far less. We can enjoy far more. We can do so much more good.

So, Zack is calling for a revolution in vision. I like it.

Hope is the new fear. [Tags: zack_exley politics]

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