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In reply to the discussion: What will the "revolution" look like when people have had enough? [View all]marions ghost
(19,841 posts)as a political party that can claim to have the best interests of the average American at heart.
Democrats at every level of govt are not effectively containing or overturning the damage done by the other side. (Lots of Bush era appointees still hanging around is one problem). So it's not only because we can't get the votes for some bill or other (even from our side at times) but also because, as I said, the opposition will stop at nothing, and it's very hard to win against those who have no ethics and no conscience. I'm speaking in generalities here, but you know as well as I do, the examples which illustrate the truth of this.
And the odds are getting even worse...
Just now on Chris Hayes show they had the McCutcheon guy (vs the FEC in the SCOTUS ruling) being interviewed. He made the statement that he thought he should be able to "buy a candidate in the political marketplace" (as a right of "free speech" . Now --you tell me--how can we respect a system that operates this way? Where one person, because he is rich, can have so much more say than countless others--in who gets elected. Is this Democracy?