Direction For The Coffee Party

The Coffee Party meeting that I attended in Northern California yesterday is off on the wrong footing. Like so many (failed) well-intentioned political gatherings and movements across America it contains a great diversity of individual perspectives and agenda items held together by some vague sense of preserving the Constitution, or tolerating and respecting different viewpoints, or being a good American. In other words, it’s both too specific and too general, or to say it in a better way, it’s not an integrated group or mission. The value of the National Safety Net political proposal is that it identifies 7 critical elements of a worthwhile society, and promotes them as parts of a single, irrefutable goal that every American deserves a basic level of security from the uncertainty of a market economy. NSN is the right mix of diversity and unity. It focuses very important issues  around the central demand for a universal safety net, so I hope that future Coffee Party meetings across the county will adopt it and be guided by it, instead of rambling on aimlessly and meaninglessly.