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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBefore I scream at Obama I would like to get back a FUNCTIONAL democracy....you know
...one where the majorities will be done with exceptions?
Abuse of filibuster rule and overt\ unmitigated gerrymandering allows for country to be shut down by a relative few people answering to a relative fewer bunch people...
I don't blame Obama for that...
I do blame him for not shutting the whole thing down and vacationing some more though after Reid reneged on the filibuster rule changes.
Your take?
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DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)I think at the very least, he should have started off from putting a hard,public propsoaltolift the ss cap, force the GOp to actually shoot stuff doen publicaly, in a big messy manner.
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)Fixing gerrymandering is fine, but it will mean nothing so long as the current structure of our system allows corporate money to select and elect and drive the policies of our candidates.
Corporate money is the problem.
Our government, both parties, was purchased by the one percent, and 99 percent of us have been disenfranchised. They are not running Republicans and Democrats for office anymore. All major party candidates are corporatists, or they do not have the money to compete.
Nobody in the 99 percent is being represented. We are all being played, Democrats *and* Republicans, and we are all fed with lies about each other to keep us fighting each other instead of the ones who are doing this to all of us. The big ugly secret on DU is that Republicans across the country are just as angry as we are.
Just as our politicians lie to us about wanting to protect public education and the social safety nets and unions and the environment, their politicians lie to them about wanting to stand for small government, limited government interference in private lives, and the defense of civil liberties.
If we could agree on just one thing....that our representation has been stolen from ALL of us by the corruption of money in the system....we could join together as the 99 percent to get the corporate money out and demand our representation back. When elections are for the people again, and corporations are not allowed to select our candidates, we can have a real fight in the public square about Democratic versus Republican philosophy. And real Democrats will win.
Right now, we don't get any choice at all. We get two candidates pushing essentially the same corporate agenda, by and for the one percent.