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white_wolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-22-11 05:37 PM Original message |
How can we expect any change to happen when both parties are backed by Wall Street? |
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northoftheborder (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-22-11 05:40 PM Response to Original message |
1. This should be goal #1 |
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socialist_n_TN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-22-11 05:41 PM Response to Original message |
2. No disagreement here............. |
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Hell Hath No Fury (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-22-11 05:45 PM Response to Original message |
3. Yes, gettting corporate $$$ out of politics - |
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villager (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-22-11 05:47 PM Response to Original message |
4. Exactly right. Same owners, merely different "brands" for different divisions |
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CrispyQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-22-11 05:50 PM Response to Original message |
5. So the question is, |
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white_wolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-22-11 05:56 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. Honestly I can only think of a few possibilities. |
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CrispyQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-22-11 06:49 PM Response to Reply #6 |
18. I would start building a new party by engaging the non-voters. |
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white_wolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-22-11 07:07 PM Response to Reply #18 |
22. We need to find a party that is for the workers and middle-class. |
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StarburstClock (583 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-22-11 06:04 PM Response to Original message |
7. We can't, the Citizens United case made that painfully clear |
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Davis_X_Machina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-22-11 06:17 PM Response to Original message |
8. Both parties are also backed by large numbers of people. |
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StarburstClock (583 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-22-11 06:21 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. What are you doing to change anything? |
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Davis_X_Machina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-22-11 06:27 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. Sue. |
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white_wolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-22-11 06:22 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. That is a problem. but it isn't the root of the problem. |
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Davis_X_Machina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-22-11 06:27 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. Learned helplessness. n/t |
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white_wolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-22-11 06:32 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. No. |
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Davis_X_Machina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-22-11 06:36 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. You'll get corporate money out of politics... |
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w4rma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-22-11 06:37 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. Purge DLCers. (nt) |
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Davis_X_Machina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-22-11 06:41 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Which is done at the ballot box... |
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Curmudgeoness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-22-11 06:50 PM Response to Reply #16 |
19. OK, we get it. Learned helplessness. So |
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Davis_X_Machina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-22-11 07:05 PM Response to Reply #19 |
21. Become a teacher. n/t |
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Curmudgeoness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-22-11 07:10 PM Response to Reply #21 |
23. Try again. I did that. It sucks. nt |
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Curmudgeoness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-22-11 06:48 PM Response to Original message |
17. How can we expect any change----we can't. |
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pscot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-22-11 06:53 PM Response to Original message |
20. Spare change? |
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