NOT SO FAST! ...... About that Socialist who was thought to have narrowly lost in Seattle......

[BlueStreak]

1. Good. We really need to shake up the two-party stranglehold.

And that has to come from the bottom up because the only thing the big two parties hate more than the opposite party is the idea that others might get into the game.

We actually have some common cause with the Tea Party. Tea Partiers despise the PTT thing, mostly for the same reasons that liberals do. We shouldn't be afraid to reach out to others who don't share all of our views, but who have a basic understanding that our system has become extraordinarily corrupt and corrupted by the vast money flowing form narrow special interests.

In Indiana, we elected a Superintendent of Public Instruction. She ran as a Dem, but really didn't get much support for a mostly dysfunctional party. She won because she and fellow educators engaged their social network. Since that time she has been butting heads with the entrenched Republicans who are hell-bent on privatizing and profitzing public schools all over the state. We can win these battles one at a time.