Reply #26: Many Dem congressmen and senators have been fighting for the 99% for years.

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The truth of the matter is, we've always just been slightly under the number of progressives that we've needed, in office. 2009 and 2010 were the best we've had in a long, long time but we still didn't have enough in the Senate. Pelosi's house voted for a lot of great stuff that couldn't make it past that point. And MOST Dem Senators supported the things we wanted, but not enough to clear legislative hurdles.

If you were go back through the many progressive legislations that have been proposed over the last 20-30 years, ones that have passed and ones that failed to pass, and if you were to look at who sponsored those legislations, who took to the floor in support of those legislations and who ultimately voted for those legislations, you would find Democrats firmly behind the vast majority of it.