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

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54. I'm not THAT positive, or optomistic.

I believe that the Working Class has ZERO effective representation in our modern Democratic Party, and life for most Americans will get much worse before it get any better. I certainly won't live to see it. The RICH will continue to live lives of conspicuous excess and luxury that the Monarchs of the Middle Ages couldn't even imagine as we enter a new Gilded Age on Steroids,
all by design,
and with the active endorsement and participation of the leadership of both dominant Political Parties.

The only rays of hope I see come from our neighbors in Latin America who have wrested their governments back from the hands of the 1%.
Of course, these reforms are demonized by the leadership of BOTH Political parties,
and our foreign policy and Media continues to support the few remaining Right Wing, Death Squad, Police States no matter WHO sits in the Oval Office, or which Political Party holds majorities in Congress.

Bitterness, Rage, and Hopelessness is an appropriate response from ANY Democrat who can remember what the Democratic Party used to be, should be,
and can be. There is plenty of popular support for the traditional Working Class values of the OLD Democratic Party. All we lack is a leader willing to pick up that sword and LEAD.

There were times in late 2008 when I believed that Obama might be that guy,
but that hope was smashed on Day One when I saw a photo of him with his arm around his new Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel.

I wish you well.
I fear we are now only feeling the outer bands of the coming storms.




You will know them by their WORKS,
not by their rhetoric, promises, or excuses.
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