The Nation article: we must transform the dem. Party

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79. That's YOUR take

Leaving aside that CU can't be overturned "legislatively" not after the right wingers on the Court have made it a constitutional issue... you obviously believe that money is more important than messaging. I don't. Money may sway some but the bigger issue is why doesn't Dem money sway GOPers and vice versa? What makes some immune? The Kochs could piss away 10 billion and I bet it would not sway you or I. And it's clear that what makes us immune is our pre-existing political belief system. THAT is the key battleground, not money.

All Dems have done when many went corporate is muddy their message, and start serving corporate interests as was clear when Clinton and Obama gave the finger to organized labor with NAFTA, normalizing trade with China, and TPP.

The way to deal with money is to inoculate the Democratic base with a clear vision of that they are for the People and expose the real wealth protecting, corporate agenda of the GOP. But the cowardice on the part of Dem strategists is scandalous. A perfect example is after over 35 years the Dems have STILL not exposed the Right's starve the beast strategy or exposed how the Right is using the courts as the judicial arm of the GOP. What happened with taxes is OBAMA MADE PERMANENT most of Bush's irresponsible tax cuts. Most Dems went along because they believe in Party more than principle. Absent from this debate was that each generation should pay it's own bills and when they don't deficits are theft from future taxpayers. That was a big issue in the 2000 election then it disappeared by 2008. ALL THE SEARCH FOR CORPORATE MONEY HAS DONE IS MAKE THE DEMS GO RIGHT. If presumably a liberal Dem doesn't understand that... then YOU are part of the problem.