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In reply to the discussion: Stunning polls show Sanders soaring while 'TrumpCare' crashes [View all]synergie
(1,901 posts)We've all been talking about all the great voices that have been making themselves heard, but some are apparently deaf to them.
Any post in praise of such people is quickly turned into a Bernie thread, as if praising anyone else really bothers people, and they feel the need to act as if Bernie is being attacked, when no one brought him up in the first place.
He's doing his job, but he's not the reason that people are active in politics now, that's due to people organizing themselves, getting their friends and neighbors involved and holding elected officials accountable. We're getting to know our official voices and we don't need to depend on mass media or supposed "rockstar" senators to do this for us.
We're seeing that we have quite a few rockstars on our side. And even if mass media won't cover Franken and Klobuchar (from this past week, for example), we have other methods of disseminating that simple fact. We are not weak or feeble, and we are effective