Do you want a president who fights like hell for the 99%?

[PatrickforO]

36. Doing this will be hard because

Americans have become too apathetic to be 'in it for the long haul' in terms of holding those we elect accountable for their actions. Oh, we'll vote...sometimes. But in an off year election? Really?

And that's the attitude. But it is more than drafting someone who is a genuine populist like Elizabeth Warren. It is ALSO being involved in your state's politics at the local and state levels and making sure we're running good candidates who will actually represent our interests when they get to Washington. In many ways it is all about primaries and caucuses, petitions and involvement in your local party structure.

The reason the United States has gotten so terrifyingly close to being a police state is because like nature, politics abhors a vacuum. Since American culture has been so dumbed down and so many are anti-intellectual and proud of it, most don't even think about the upcoming election until a few days before, and vote for the best looking or the one with the most name recognition without really knowing where that person stands. Then, instead of keeping track of what the people they voted in are doing when they get to Washington, they simply go back home and watch reality TV and would never dream of calling their Representative or Senator and expressing their thoughts about upcoming legislation.

Into this vacuum steps who? Corporate interests. The Koch brothers and their ilk. The Donald. Sheldon Adelson. And, since our apathy has given these robber barons so much influence, they use that influence to strip the treasury through tax loopholes (did you know over 30 Fortune 500 companies no longer pay any US income tax on billions in profits? Check out Citizens for Tax Justice - they have researched IRS records of publicly held companies and have a whole list).

For these people, this top 1/10 of 1%, it is about controlling government so they can route the maximum amount of public money possible into their own coffers. AND WE HAVE GIVEN AWAY THE STORE TO THEM.

As a friend of mine once said to me, we have exactly the government we deserve.

The moral of this story is that while I agree Sen. Warren would make a find President, we MUST also elect Representative and Senators who have our interests at heart, and then we MUST stay involved or else Warren won't be able to do a thing for us.