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sabrina 1

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2. Don't we have an election in 2014 coming up? Where we have a chance to get
Wed Apr 23, 2014, 01:26 PM
Apr 2014

some actual Progressive Dems elected and then again 2016 where we can get more actual Progressive Dems elected?

If we were to focus on Congress, we the people might have a say in this country.

Anything can happen over the next three years so to even be talking about this right now is merely a distraction from what ought to be the main topic of conversation, CONGRESS.

Because as we've seen, a President can only do what Congress allows them to do. And when we put all our energy into that race, at the cost of the actual Representatives of the people, well, we know what happens.

I am taking the message we have been given when ever we object to certain policies, to issues directly affecting the people not getting attention etc, 'You can't expect the President to focus only on YOUR stuff, he is the President of ALL the people'! Okay, got it.

But MY Rep in congress is not the Rep for 'all the people' s/he is the one who was chosen by US to represent US and to whom we have more access.

So that is what I and many others are now going to be doing. So that if we get a President who does not represent the people's interests, but rather Corporate interests, Congress will be there to stop them. And if we DO get a President who represents us, Congress will be there to support him or her in getting things done for the PEOPLE.

Either if the people have Congress, the President will have to work with them and that is why I fail to see anymore why there is so much focus on the Presidential elections after all we've witnessed now.

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