Everyone seems to be more concerned with what ''the people'' are doing (or didn't do) more than why.
What it demonstrates to me is that some people really don't give a shit why you do what you do, just so long as you do what they want you to do. Very elitist.
Here's an idea: Ever thought the problem might be you and your perspective(s)? Your party? That you don't reach these people who will stand in the rain for an iPhone but drop-kick the idea of wasting one second on a bought and paid-for politician who is part of the absolute corruption that has become our lives?!
Bears repeating. (And yes, I voted, and no one in my household shopped yesterday).
People vote, and their lives get no better and the big money and corruption and using the poor and the middle class as mere pawns is now in your face, not behind the scenes.
THAT'S what Dems should run on - actually making life better for Americans (and the ACA did not touch all that many Americans in the great scheme of things, honest, there are 316 or so million of us) and then fucking FOLLOW THROUGH on it. No point telling someone out of work or in a shit job that the bad guys blocked the jobs bill once a year or whatever- shout it from the rooftops! Make an end run! Every week! The ACA is not the be-all and end-all. Lack of good jobs, lower wages - doing Pete Peterson's work for him, because yeah, Social Security will be underfunded because people are either not able to pay in or are paying in very little. What happens to them when they hit 62 or 65?
Don't promise "hope and change", and then pretty much ignore hope and change for the poor and middle class.
IMO most regular people who shopped got a lot more for their money than any campaign contributions got them.
From this OP -
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12771293
Government has become a clearinghouse for corporations and plutocrats with deep pockets to buy the politicians who grease the wheels for lucrative contracts and easy regulation. It’s all pay for play, and look the other way.
According to the watchdog Sunlight Foundation, from 2007 to 2012, 200 corporations spent almost $6 billion in Washington on lobbying and campaign contributions. And they received more than $4 trillion in government contracts and other forms of assistance. Now that the midterm elections are over, it’s payback time, with the newly elected Congress ready to deliver to those who invested well in their chosen candidates.
Both parties are fucking DELIGHTED with all that money.
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