We need to establish the new bottom up democracy of the many But we have been stymied by the diversity of the people, and by the many differences among and between the people. Each "identity" group seems to be struggling to be heard, how do we hear when there is so much work to establish the "common good."
The oppressed create not one, but many “counter-publics,” their voices is rooted in particularity, because the pain is concrete to each community. The hearing of that pain can form the basis of "common action" and hearing and then sharing can be the gift of the religious activists to our common work of democratic social renewal.
