The left fears that federal surveillance of international phone traffic is a constraint on our constitutional rights.

The right fears that as Robert Samuelson said in the Washington Post: “campaign finance ‘reform’ is a dagger in the heart of the First Amendment.”

With all of this worrying from both sides I’m feeling pretty good. We can do both of these tasks better and we will. Our system was set up to move slowly and give a large influence to the established powers. Eventually however change happens and if we look from far enough away we can see progress toward more freedom and more justice for more people.