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(14,524 posts)They don't give a crap what We the People want or need.
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)it morphed into "Wee People" .. as in Little People. Fuckers.
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)Initech
(100,102 posts)MissDeeds
(7,499 posts)Huge K&R!
appalachiablue
(41,171 posts)Time for serious education, organization & action. How to reach the many, many uninformed is a real challenge with no left media, incessant hate TV, radio & internet & endless entertainment. No labor union structure anymore & public schools, teachers & education are being privatized for profit with the charter schools scam & right wing history & science curriculums.
madokie
(51,076 posts)maybe some if it will take.
I'll not hold my breath that it will with many of the low information voters but they aren't the only ones who vote.
daleanime
(17,796 posts)tooeyeten
(1,074 posts)No limits, spend early, fast, most influence and control of the political landscape. GOAL: the White House.
lark
(23,155 posts)All they care about is increasing the wealth of the themselves and the rest of the 1%. They'd see America burning in flames rather than give the working class people a break. They are beneath contempt.
RiverLover
(7,830 posts)1/25/15
WASHINGTON (AP) Florida Sen. Marco Rubio is sending clear signs about an expected run for the presidency in 2016.
The first-term Republican lawmaker planned to join several other potential candidates at a gathering Sunday in Palm Springs, California, organized by the conservative billionaire Koch brothers, who have a keen interest in the party's contenders.
More than 450 allies and donors to the Koch network were to attend, with the closing event a panel discussion with Rubio and fellow Sens. Rand Paul of Kentucky and Ted Cruz of Texas on domestic policy.
The organizer, Freedom Partners, is the central hub for the political machine backed by wealthy industrialists Charles and David Koch. The traditionally private Koch group planned to let reporters watch an Internet broadcast of the event...
Dustlawyer
(10,497 posts)We have to push Bernie out there and support him with real numbers! His message needs to be heard and right now they have already marginalized the sh*t out of him with the polls.
We are blindly developing with no thought to sustainability and Climate Change. Unless we can regain control of our government by cutting off campaign contributions and busting up the banking and media oligarchies, we are screwed! Bernie wants to do this and the only way is if we can help build support for him and his ideas.
This is where you can decide to do what you can to help bring about this monumental change, or sit around and bitch about how crappy everything is getting. If it's only trying to motivate people on the Internet, great. If it is donating (we still have the $ issue), volunteering, whatever, please do it! We need to move to a system of Publicly Funded Elections and no Revolving Door, campaign cash, or Super PACs. We need honest reporting and journalism and educating our population as to certain realities like Climate Change and Sustainability. We really don't have a lot of time and the deck is stacked against us. Bernie is the only politicians openly trying to raise these issues and propose how we fix this corruption of our system. We cannot send the message that his goals are not that important to most people. If we can show him strong support, other politicians will pick up the message.
Let's do something BIG!!!
El Shaman
(583 posts)sharpen the pick axes and the pitch forks: light-up the torches! !!
wolfie001
(2,265 posts)Instead we're treated to spineless weasels always trolling for lucre looking to cut programs that help the 99%.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)They just let us pretend to live in a country where the 99% have any say in what they determine is the way to go.
Someday soon the mask will come off I'm sure. But it will have to get to great depression levels before the fox brainwashed wake up.
El Shaman
(583 posts)want to run the country, they should pay a bigger tax rate!!
brooklynite
(94,727 posts)If so, it's going to be short race.
The Koch Bros may be the worst of the worst, but he would have done a better job criticizing the entire campaign finance system.
El Shaman
(583 posts)de los 'mammaloncitos' ( the meeting of the little 'sucklings'!!
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)But then, they have ads to sell.