How can we get a progressive presidential candidate at the top of Democratic ticket in 2016?

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42. We need to find those issues we have common ground with most Americans on...

... and get them past the corporate media filters so that the public can hear about them and talk about them during the campaign. Whether it is via social media, non-profits like FSTV and LINK TV, etc. we need to find a way to get the 99% issues talked about more and be less drowned out by the divisive issues that the corporate media wants to drown and distract us with...

Issues like:
- protecting our civil liberties and preventing domestic spying
- prosecuting the banksters (tea partiers have complained about Obama's ties to the banks!) and produce meaningful reforms in this industry.
- public campaign financing
- overturning Citizen's United and corporate personhood.
- less wasteful spending on the military and prison industrial complexes.
- getting student debt problems resolved so that they can become a producing part of our economy again and be well trained for our domestic economy taking more of a lead on the world stage in the future as we incentivize getting jobs moved back here.
- getting rid of the TPP BS that's going on in secret that will sacrifice our national sovereignty, and re-evaluating and perhaps pulling out of many of the other "free trade" treaties we've been a part of.

On the issues above, I think there are many ways we could persuade independents and even Republicans to side with us if we don't approach them in a partisan manner, but more on the level of preserving our middle class (and basically everyone that's not in the top fraction of 1%).

Other issue such as climate change, etc. are also important, but perhaps might be harder to get crossover voting at this time with the amount of disinformation that's currently weaved in to current discourse.

Someone like Elizabeth Warren who's taking on in effect both parties when going after the bankster criminals should be able to point to her record there on how she's trying to fight back against the elites controlling both parties on issues like these. We need to amplify the messages of efforts like these for whoever we gather around for the progressive choice we want elected.

By doing this we will also help expose the many so-called "moderates" as NOT being really moderate, but basically non-commital on many issues except for those that serve their corporate masters. I we take away their stage of "moderation" by pointing out the many issues they don't support are those that really most Americans across both parties support, we can bring forth what a true *moderate* that supports most Americans would be like to the voters.