Al Franken.. The Progressive Democrat's candidate in 2016?

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10. He supported SOPA and PIPA,

so he is clearly not immune to the pressure of his big money donors. In many other areas, where he did not have the same pressure, he has done well.

Our problem here is not individual politicians and their whims and personalities. The problem is the corrupt system itself, which requires any candidate to be in the pocket of the big banks and corporations before even getting a chance to run.

Our efforts need to be focused on changing the system to remove corporate influence. Without doing that, we will get more of the same march to corporate authoritarianism, because our candidates will again be selected by the one percent.