.... Then What?

In order to imagine a world in which working men and women have more power over global corporations, we have to step out of NOW and envision the NEW. An article in the New York Times that ran yesterday gave me one little tool to help me do that.

It's an article about young people and politics in Montana called, In Montana, Young, Liberal and Open to Big Government.
Basically, even in this very RED state, young people are reading between the tea party lines, and rejecting a future in which they have no security. They know they don't have good jobs right now. They know they've been essentially screwed over by a new economic structure that values corporate profit over the richness of people's own lives.

The article is narrowly focused on whether these young people will be a new caucus for the Dems. That's good, I guess, and important.

But that's not the little tool that I found in this article.

The tool is simply this: the stuff of which movements are built - - the people - - are changing in this nation. The article reports that "young voters believe that it is more important to create jobs, have affordable access to health care and develop 'a world-class education system,' according to the Institute of Politics at Harvard" than to lower the deficit.

Young people get it that we need a solid safety net. That's pretty hopeful!

So this leaves us with the question of how can we nurture and develop these instincts, and set the stage for building institutional power. What do you think are ways to build on young people's beliefs?