The marginalization of "The Left" through the years. Not hearing us now at all.

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117. The left has always been marginalized in this country...

...because that is where the true threat to the oligarchy lies, and they know it.

A left populist message would resonate with the majority of the population, if recent polls are any guide. BUT, because of the unrelenting propaganda against the left and liberalism, the message would have to be presented as a purely populist message without reference to its roots in leftist thinking.

Everybody hates the fat cat banksters. There was something like 90% opposition to the bank bailouts.

Everybody hates that health care costs continue to rise and that insurers continue to take advantage of all of us.

A huge majority of people across all political and religious persuasions believes that birth control should be readily available to all women.

Liberals and conservatives alike are concerned about the environment and want to leave a better world for their children.

But we have allowed our overall agreement on policies to be splintered into a game of "who's to blame". It's not just the right who have taken advantage of our divisions; we all know it's the bought-and-paid-for politicians on both sides of the aisle who are playing us like a fiddle so they can continue to take their dirty dollars from dirty lobbyists and continue on in power.

Must we wait for the world to burn, before we can point at them and ask: Power to what purpose, sir? To what purpose?