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In reply to the discussion: I Love You Two [View all]

Left Turn Only

(74 posts)
16. Total agreement!
Sat Jan 26, 2013, 11:00 AM
Jan 2013

The question now is how do we come up with the money to inform the people of their own best interests. We also need the people like John Stewart, Bill Moyers, Robert Reich, etc to be the attention getters and to create the bumper sticker information for the greatly reduced attention spans of the American electorate. The internet can be of great help but it would be good to have more radio stations and TV programs to counter the Limbaugh/Fox News info.

By getting socialist/progressive candidates to win primaries and elections starting with 2014, we can start planning effective legislation that would protect workers' rights and limit corporate power. While finding the leaders to organize these and other ideas is difficult, I won't believe the problem is insurmountable. I'm hoping that with places like this and organizations like Public Citizen, American Prospect, Mother Jones and others, someone will come to the fore and unite all these forces for the people into one coherent power.

"Don't mourn, organize."

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I Love You Two [View all] Left Turn Only Jan 2013 OP
It'll never work......... socialist_n_TN Jan 2013 #1
Never is a big word Left Turn Only Jan 2013 #3
Have you ever read John Rawls? white_wolf Jan 2013 #2
Hobbs view of humanity? Left Turn Only Jan 2013 #4
Hobbs view of humanity was the state of nature. white_wolf Jan 2013 #7
It won't work and that's not because of socialism. TBF Jan 2013 #5
I Only Wish Left Turn Only Jan 2013 #6
What it involves is getting the money out of the hands of the few TBF Jan 2013 #8
What's the post title mean? limpyhobbler Jan 2013 #9
Sorry for the ambiguity Left Turn Only Jan 2013 #10
We are at a phase where corporate power Starry Messenger Jan 2013 #11
I love my little aphorism about this....... socialist_n_TN Jan 2013 #12
Exactly! Starry Messenger Jan 2013 #13
1st step is saying that it can be done Left Turn Only Jan 2013 #14
Step one, IMO, for the US, is going to have to be to dismantle the power of the monopolies. Starry Messenger Jan 2013 #15
Total agreement! Left Turn Only Jan 2013 #16
I'm curious as to your age - TBF Jan 2013 #17
age Left Turn Only Jan 2013 #18
Isolationism - TBF Jan 2013 #19
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