I think if we’re going to accomplish anything thanks to these pre-ideological harmonies that means we need to collaborate on a pre-ideological level. So this is why the thing I want to see more than anything else right now is a movement that has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with process. I don’t want to argue about the sins of homosexuality or the merits of a border fence or whether there is or isn’t a god or whether we did or didn’t evolve from apes—we do enough of that!

So let’s for once just agree to agree, because right now 99% of us can agree that government is broken, and that the reason government is broken has a whole lot to do with money.

So how do we fix it? Well, how about this: a completely non-partisan grassroots movement. And by non-partisan I don’t mean one of these feel-good third-party “centrist” groups that pop up and fizzle out again every few years, but a legitimately non-partisan movement: a movement that has nothing at all to do with party and everything to do with the the pre-partisan process of government itself. […]

[W]hat I do know is that it would mean setting all the childish bullshit aside. It would mean being grown-up enough to sit down and talk to people we’re not necessarily comfortable having as much in common with as we do. It would mean dropping the name-calling, whether it be the coastal metropolitan condescension towards middle America or the middle American victimization schtick again coastal metropolitan elites. It would mean not wasting our time reblogging wearethe99percent and arguing about whose anxieties or debts or financial conditions are somehow more or less legitimate than our own and agreeing instead that right now all of us are pretty well fucked, and that the only way out is to remember that we’re all fucked equally, and together.