SICKO is NOT about health-care!

It's much bigger than that. Moore is only using the health-care issue as the means to force attention to America's degrading national moral character - our incessant focus on the "me" rather than the "we", and especially our penchant to believe that the American people and the American "way of life" are superior to every other. Confronted with our empty arrogance, the audience last night howled with laughter and surprise. What else could we do?

This movie, as well as Gore's "Assault on Reason", and Carter's "Our Endangered Values" mark the beginning of the Left's return to broader questions of moral values and our move away from identity politics. Over the last 30 years, in our struggle to assure equality for women, minorities, and gays, we have made it appear that "me-ism" rules supreme as much to us as it does to those on the Right.

Our empathy, our commitment to the common good, and our humble willingness to search our souls forms the core our 100-year-old Progressive Movement. In that larger context, the necessity of equal treatment for all becomes self-evident. Folks, we are the moral majority!