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

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79. No, they don't. And this is a lie that needs to be slapped down hard, now.

We will hear this incessantly by the corporate shills: that traditional Democrats are too out of the mainstream for the electorate.

How ABSURD.

Every single poll last year showed that the electorate was far more on the page of traditional Democrats than the corporate candidates we were offered. Across party lines, voters favored protecting SS and Medicare and curbing military spending.

And the proof of the lie is that candidates pivot LEFTWARD every single election season to win voters. They lie and say that they will support a public option, or protect Social Security, because they know that is what voters want to hear. But as soon as the election is over, it's back to the business of the one percent.

That is what happens when corporations buy elections. And posts like the one you just made are what happens when corporations buy the media and we are propagandized day in and day out with corporate lies.

Watch the board. The posters who will be repeating this lie incessantly are the very same group who post incessantly in defense of every corporate outrage coming out of this administration and who smear and attack whistleblowers, real journalists, Occupy, and traditional Democrats.
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