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In reply to the discussion: Like Robert Reich just said on Facebook [View all]cascadiance
(19,537 posts)... not just the publicly seen Republicans in congress. There are the lobbyist types, etc. that are twisting his arm now to get things like TPP and other crap passed for them.
We just need to twist his arm harder as those that are the rank and file Democrats, to let him know that if he wants to have any kind of legacy and power in the Democratic party, he will change his tune and start reversing what he's doing on these issues.
We can tell him that he can make the case to these PTB that if they want his help, and basically screw his party by pushing Republicans in to majorities everywhere and getting other corporate Democrats voted out of office that were also doing their bidding, that Obama could arguably be better off making the case that the corporate lobbyists in effect declared war on the Democratic Party, and that from this day forward he and other Democrats on the hill will no longer accept corruption money and favors to do their will, when they are getting pushed out now.
Our basic challenge now is that we need to find some way to get the peoples' message out over the money flow people and corporate press and huge ad campaigns, so that we can put some clout behind him taking such a position.
That is why I think perhaps we could initiate here a campaign for nationwide an immediate call to action for all local county Democratic PCP and other like organizations to issue resolutions that we will not support the NAFTA, TPP, and other "free trade" deals, without some efforts to provide equal emphasis on protecting American jobs with things like tariffs, and also ensuring that any treaties we sign up for we look to ensure that employee's rights and welfare are looked at and respected globally, as well as the environment. And that anti-democratic process of "fast track authority" efforts should be immediately shut down and dismissed as undemocratic and not deserving to be used in our government.
If there are almost simultaneous massive releases of such resolutions, it will be hard for the media to ignore those and not be called out for the corporate partisans that many of them are.
It was amazing that the "top two" primary initiative (Measure 90) here in Oregon went down in greater numbers than the undocumented driver's license prop did, which everyone expected was doomed from the start. That shows to me the power of the people speaking out against the 1% that was putting tons of money in to that measure, and at times we can not be partisan based on party, but be rightfully partisan based on us being an oppressed economic class the way 99% of us are here.