It's time for this destructive meme about shutting up during elections to stop,

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51. A corporate talking point, and utterly false.

"If your agenda is so far out there that it can't be done with the governance apparatus we have..."

Every single poll shows that defending Social Security benefits is enormously popular...even among Republicans. Our problem is not that the agenda of defending Social Security (and holding banks accountable, and making billionaires pay taxes...) is "out there" and fringe, but that we have an electoral system that pours so much corporate money into elections, that the politicians are not representing the people and their interests anymore.

It is illustrative that we can go into a debt ceiling debate with polls showing strongly that the American people want to protect Social Security, end tax cuts for the rich, and draw back on our military adventures....and we can confidently predict an outcome that does exactly the opposite.

That is how purchased we are, and that is why it is so important that we lend the party strength with our voices to represent us again. Remember that President Obama told us to hold his feet to the fire. There is a reason for that. This meme that Americans should shut up is nothing but a strategy for the one percent to push through policies that reflect not the peoples' interests, but corporate interests....because they know that strong citizen voices and participation push politicians toward popular, representative policies.

Defending Social Security is a POPULAR position, because it reflects the interest of the people. Pushing our party to reflect the interests of the people will INCREASE electability, not decrease it.