As Simple As That

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73. The Tea Party wasn't fully bottom up.

As fans of Thom Hartmann know, it was well funded by the Koch Brothers so it wasn't a true bottom up movement. Quite often their elected candidates faced the choice of seving the electorate or serving corporate masters of the GOP-which caused fits to both powers!

I agree with your clarification, as Thom says, 'All politics are local, they start from the ground up'-(or something like that)

Revolutions are too.

Ask any Tea Party member and to a man they want their government back. Guess what, that's what all of us anti-oligarchy types here at DU want too! We recognize that business as usual politics won't get it done.

Many conservatives are figuring this out too (finally) which explains the Trump movement. The revolution is already underway and both Bernie and 'The Donald' have chosen to get out in front of it.

Should Bernie or Trump get their party nomination there are no guarantees that the aformentioned revolution will add the local or Congressional help they need to get this done. That said, politics as usual has a proven track record of not getting things done.


It is called The Sanders Revolution for a reason...it's your choice...the revolution could use your help but you can stick with the status quo. I dunno, it seems to me the old addage about insanity being doing the same thing again and again while expecting different results fits. We need to try something different imho.