Why read this long statement of our Core Vision?

Because it is the absence of this vision that is the primary reason why liberals and progressives are failing to remake this society even at the moment when Obama is President, the Dems control both houses of Congress, and the economic meltdown has given overwhelming evidence that the old system doesn't work so well. Absent a coherent world-view, the liberal and progressive forces fall back onto a non-ideological pragmatism which has nothing in it that is compelling to most Americans. So too many of them revert to the only worldview they've ever heard, and one that still seems to command the assent (however grudging) of the elected leadership of both major parties: the notion that the competitive marketplace, perhaps with some added guidelines or supervision from government agencies, is the only way to achieve societal well-being, and that military domination of the world is the only way to achieve "homeland security." Thus, president Obama enters office and selects the champions of Wall Street special interests to run his economic bailout program (which then, not surprisingly, favors the interests of the banks and imagines a trickle down effect for the rest of the economy), escalates the war in Afghanistan and carries it to Pakistan, fails to include Single Payer as one of the options under consideration for Health Care, and backs down on pledges to end military tribunals for "enemy combatants" (leaving it to the military to decide who does or does not fit into that category). It's not because there is something wrong with Obama or the Dems--it is that the entire liberal and progressive world has no coherent worldview to which it educates the larger public and which it uses as its criterion for which policies and programs to support and which to oppose. 

     We have that alternative, articulated in part here, and in part in our Spiritual Covenant with America and our Domestic and Global Marshall Plan, which you can find at www.spiritualprogressives.org.

      So the reason you should read this whole long analysis and program is because without it, the liberal and progressive forces are doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past.And you could help change that if you can fully internalize and then share with others the worldview articulated below and further developed in our Spiritual Covenant and our Domestic and Global Marshall Plan.