What should we do to push the country to the left?

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37. Refuse to play the partisan game. Become the 99 percent

and protest massively, irrespective of party, to get corporate money out of our elections and government, and seize our representation back.

The big ugly secret on DU is that Republicans across the country are not the same as corporate Republicans in government, just as Democrats across the country are not the same as the corporate, Third Way Democrats currently controlling our party.

Our government, both parties, was purchased by the one percent, and 99 percent of us have been disenfranchised.

That doesn't mean that Democrats have to agree with Republican philosophy. It just means that we should realize that they are as frustrated and angry as we are with the way things are going, because they are not being represented either. What is being represented now in the halls of Congress and the White House is corporate interests, period.

Just as our politicians lie to us about wanting to protect public education and the social safety nets and unions and the environment, their politicians lie to them about wanting to stand for small government, limited government interference in private lives, and the defense of civil liberties.

Nobody is being represented. We are all being played, and we are all fed with lies about each other to keep us fighting each other instead of the ones who are doing this to all of us.

If we could agree on just one thing....that our representation has been stolen from ALL of us by the corruption of money in the system....we could join together as the 99 percent to demand our representation back. When elections are for the people again, and corporations are not allowed to select our candidates, we can have a real fight in the public square about Democratic versus Republican philosophy. And real Democrats will win.

Right now, we don't get any choice at all. We get two candidates pushing essentially the same agenda, by and for the one percent.