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In reply to the discussion: The President has finally given up on trying to work with the Republicans. [View all]"Perhaps he should have done it a long time ago? "
Really? Only "perhaps?" Interestingly, had he not worked with them, their rhetoric would have been no different, as they've been saying "The Democrats are not working with us at all, we're being excluded, and that's why we're filibustering everything."
What these remaining years before 2014 election should be about is changing the filibuster rules, nominating judges and department heads, and passing them en-masse to get our judiciary back on track with some more liberal judges. All judges need to be opposed to corporate citizenship.
Second, as you said, let the campaign begin, make it national, and coordinated. Let's call it a "Living wage," since that implies closer to what we need. Simply get on the correct side of polling on the issues, on raising taxes on the rich, on bringing jobs back, and making corporations pay their share, either directly by repatriation of monies, or on incoming product, in the form of tariffs.
But most of that stuff--it's lost to history, has been propagandized to death as a negative thing. There is still a bit too much of the worshiping of the rich, and putting them up on a pedestal, rather than chasing them with tar and feathers.