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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat will it take to fix America's big problems?
Looking at the big picture rather than just whatever issue is hot at the moment, how do you think we can get from here to the real change country needs to get off the path of grinding the middle class into dogfood?
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elect more Democrats even if they are corporate owned blue dogs | |
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get progressives to challenge blue dogs in primaries and do everything possible to beat them and take over the Democratic Party | |
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either of the above plus when the Republican Party dies with the last Jim Crow fan, start a new progressive party to the left of the Democrats | |
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Our system is so corrupt and broken that the system itself needs to be replaced from the ground up. | |
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everything is OK as it is | |
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other | |
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What will it take to fix America's big problems? (Original Post)
yurbud
Jun 2013
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lob1
(3,820 posts)1. The ONLY solution is to get all money out of politics. There's no other way.
magellan
(13,257 posts)2. +1 Yep, sadly, this is what it'll take.
"Sadly" because I haven't a fucking clue how we accomplish that. The people with the power to make it happen are invested in maintaining the status quo, and few get to Congress without national party backing.
Nay
(12,051 posts)3. A recognition that there ARE big problems. And then, a will to address them logically no matter
whose ox is gored.
Good luck with that.