>America is choking off the need by Leftists to understand where
>common ground can be found, e.g., Yoshie's citations regarding
>similar economic concerns among evangelicals and leftists.
A lot of which may be reflecting the opinions of black evangelicals - but that aside, while there may be common ground on "economic concerns," the solutions are likely to be different: church/private charity vs. state action. As Esther Kaplan wrote in her study of the Christian right, to that crowd, big government is part of the modernity they hate (and competition for their own church-based welfare programs).
Doug