Reply #38: I agree

[elizfeelinggreat]

The fact that we've been told we have to choose which part of our public institutions now deserve financing (as if they all do not) contributes to the ease with which infighting is started. We're being asked to decide what's more important: teachers, buildings, lunches, etc., and not considering that we should be working to improve all of them.

Thank you for this reminder:

Any success, any gains for the people, from the New Deal did not come from politicians, it came from politicians being forced to respond to outside pressure from powerful forces - progressive organizations, socialist organizations, organized Labor.

The binary system, the two party system, is no excuse for us. No matter how many parties there were, no matter how many options, our job, our duty is the same.

President Obama said something similar over and over during his campaign. He wants to follow our lead, we need to participate.