of "quiet rooms" . . .
Mitt Romney says that we should discuss income inequality, if at all, only in “quiet rooms.” There was a time when people said the same thing about racial inequality. Luckily, however, there were people like Martin Luther King who refused to stay quiet. And we should follow their example today. For the fact is that rising inequality threatens to make America a different and worse place — and we need to reverse that trend to preserve both our values and our dreams.
Those words are the concluding paragraph of a powerful column by Paul Krugman titled How Fares the Dream?which I strongly recommend.
This post is not about the column, except for the use of those words already quoted.
Rather it is about the immorality of "quiet rooms" with respect to the real issues that plague this country.
Immorality may seem too harsh a word.
This is a representative democracy. It is a nation in which the voices of the people should be heard on all issues, even if ultimately those we elect may exercise their independent judgment and go in a direction those