Digby: Common Goodness

There is much to recommend Michael Tomasky's essay today in The American Prospect. I agree with Atrios that it is important that the Democratic party give people something to believe in. Politics without heart is nothing more than crass deal making.

Tomasky prescribes a Democratic philosophy of the common good and posits that this is the basis of liberalism --- sacrifice for larger universalist principles. What's not to like? Certainly on a rhetorical level it's a positive philosophical message that serves as an umbrella for Democratic policies. The rub, of course, is in determining what the common good is in the first place.