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

[dreamnightwind]

144. Excellent post

I do think we need to reach out to more than just the left, and I don't mean we need to be more corporate-centrist, I'm agreeing that we need to find ways to reach those on the right who are disillusioned with the way things are but have misdiagnosed the causes.

The same forces that have disenfranchised the left are ruining the futures of the teabaggers, too. They have been conned into seeing a dysfunctional government and thinking that the solution is to shrink government, get government off our backs. Unfortunately the backs they''re getting government off of is the backs of the multinationals, who would like nothing better than to render government incapable of regulating them.

We don't need less government, necessarily, nor more government, necessarily, we need government that serves the 99% and not just the 1%. The laws and regulations that are passed are often literally written by corporate lobbyists to accelerate the transfer of wealth in their direction. That's what we have to get into the heads of the people, be they left, center, or right. And that's the ticket to a coalition that can truly restore power to the people in this country.