That defintion from a tenured professor at UCLA, in Information Technology. Shameful.
* Tell the taxpayers what they are getting for their money
Civilization requires a substantial number and variety of public services, which in turn require moderate and reasonable amounts of taxes. Despite decades of conservative rhetoric, a majority of Americans are perfectly happy to pay their taxes. And yet liberals keep letting conservatives clobber them with rhetoric that makes taxes sound like a bad thing. It is time for liberals to stop losing this argument. To start with, do not talk about amounts of money (”we should spend $15 billion on health care”). Instead, talk about what the money buys (”we should provide medical care to 15 million children”). And stop letting Bush call his tax policies “tax cuts”: he is not cutting those taxes; he is just postponing them.
Assess the sixties
Make a list of the positive and lasting contributions of the sixties. Americans would benefit from such a list.