Want a more progressive president? Then get a more progressive Congress.

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61. Already done it.

I believe the system MUST change or else this country will continue on the path it's been on the past 3 1/2 to 4 decades.

I appreciate your publicizing Bernie Sanders petition.

The movement that will MAKE them change the way D.C. works will come from people in the streets demanding it. Petitions are nice, and I certainly have signed many of them. "Our" elected representatives in D.C. will only change the system if enough Americans are in the streets demanding they do it.

I have spoken with many Tea Party members around where I live, and they believe in many of the things that I want to see implemented to change our current system to make it more democratic and more likely to serve the interests of the Americans who elect Congress persons.

Things like:

1. Term limits
2. Paper ballots
3. A ban on lobbying
4. Public funding of elections (yes, many of them are open to this to make Congresspersons accountable to the people)
5. Instant Runoff Voting (IRV)

and a few other things.

I can and will stand with Tea Party members in the streets to change our election system and to implement laws to make D.C. Congress members be more interested in serving their constituents' needs and desires over multinational corporations' and billionaires' interests.

If OWS and the Tea Party ever join forces to demand a change in D.C. I will have hope that we just may one day begin to make things better for the majority of Americans and start to reverse the ongoing distribution of wealth and income from the working class, middle class, and poor to the top 1%. I am under no illusion that most Tea Party members would begin to support our agenda. I am fully convinced that if our system is changed, that Congress could (and would) begin to pass legislation that actually benefits the economic well-being of their average constituent. When such large majorities of Americans want a public health care system, it could get passed.

We have to put the issues down in order to change the system, and I hope that one day we can do that. I loathe Tea Party positions and principles, but if they want to change the system in the same ways I do, then I will gladly put down my issues and stand with them as an American to change our corrupt system.