You are right, Jaime Harrison and the rest of the neolibs don't own the Democratic Party: AIPAC, the tech bros, and the dark-monetarians own both parties. No election is stolen: they're all paid for by the oligarchs. For example, in the 10th NY Congressional district all the leading candidates took AIPC money.
This is so true! When we have enough Progressives in Congress there must be a Constitutional Convention to update the Constitution to make it fair, eliminate the Electoral College, fix the number of Senators to match the number of people in each state, eliminate money in politics, correct the taxation, etc. It is time to take back our Democracy!
The founders invisioned a Congress composed of individuals who represented each of the various states, but who also brought themselves, as independent minded people who would weigh various constituencies and their needs in deciding how to vote. They would weigh the interests of their own state and of the country as a whole, along with the conditions in the Constitution and tradition to make their decisions.
But today, we have two parties, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party and their members constitute most seats in Congress. And members of each party so often vote in lock-step according to how they are advised by their party, which is often more attentive to the needs of their deep-pocket donors.
And voters have only two choices, to vote for the Democrat or vote for the Republican. Only rarely is there any other choice, and voting for that other alternative is regarded as a waste.
Is there anything we could do to somehow re-shape our politics so that Congress can again function as it was intended, with its members bringing their own ideas and thinking into play so as to best serve their many constituencies? There may be many approaches for doing this, but my personal opinion is that bringing in a larger assortment of political parties would help greatly with this. And I think this is possible:
You are right, Jaime Harrison and the rest of the neolibs don't own the Democratic Party: AIPAC, the tech bros, and the dark-monetarians own both parties. No election is stolen: they're all paid for by the oligarchs. For example, in the 10th NY Congressional district all the leading candidates took AIPC money.
This is so true! When we have enough Progressives in Congress there must be a Constitutional Convention to update the Constitution to make it fair, eliminate the Electoral College, fix the number of Senators to match the number of people in each state, eliminate money in politics, correct the taxation, etc. It is time to take back our Democracy!
Be very careful. Don't tinker with the Constitution that way. The fascists nearly have enough States to call a Convention.
The founders invisioned a Congress composed of individuals who represented each of the various states, but who also brought themselves, as independent minded people who would weigh various constituencies and their needs in deciding how to vote. They would weigh the interests of their own state and of the country as a whole, along with the conditions in the Constitution and tradition to make their decisions.
But today, we have two parties, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party and their members constitute most seats in Congress. And members of each party so often vote in lock-step according to how they are advised by their party, which is often more attentive to the needs of their deep-pocket donors.
And voters have only two choices, to vote for the Democrat or vote for the Republican. Only rarely is there any other choice, and voting for that other alternative is regarded as a waste.
Is there anything we could do to somehow re-shape our politics so that Congress can again function as it was intended, with its members bringing their own ideas and thinking into play so as to best serve their many constituencies? There may be many approaches for doing this, but my personal opinion is that bringing in a larger assortment of political parties would help greatly with this. And I think this is possible:
https://www.opednews.com/populum/page.php?f=Can-We-Reform-our-Polarize-Reform_Reform_Two-party-System_Voting-240206-3.html
Progressives is the new Socialists moniker
Let’s go with that and continue the good fight
We will prevail
Our country deserves better for ALL!
Wow!
YES!!!