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In reply to the discussion: An IT worker writes: 'Emotionally, we are broken' [View all]merrily
(45,251 posts)the 1% to set them up. They are well-compensated adults, not little kids or robots. They have the choice to legislate on behalf of the 100%, just as they supposed to.
And, on the federal level, at a minimum, many of them ARE in the 1%. There is a reason that Bernie Sanders didn't get rich after hitting D.C. and so many others did. Not to mention that a lot of them arrived as members of the 1%.
You can't pressure your Rep or Senator very much on your own, but get a group together and you just might. Though they have little to fear, since voted out means only that they get a very well paying, and still powerful job as a lobbyist or a member of a think tank.
Look at Dodd. Head of the motion picture association? Really? What was his great qualification to head that, other than his contacts in federal government?
On the other hand, even boycotts, assuming we had the wherewithal to organize a large one, would not hurt the Koch's. Their billions much earned more while I was typing this than some busboy earns all year.
I guess we just see this very differently.