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Originally posted by David9176
reply to post by skunknuts
There isn't going to be real change until progressives and libertarians come together to form a real populist movement. I'd say the true tea-partiers (not the ass backwards ignorant teabaggers), and the educated progressive movement share much.
They do! And that's why I keep stating that Republicans will win big in 2010 because these two groups will not "combine" until after Republicans gain seats.
Republicans can no longer be the party of NO and sit on the sidelines. Unfortunately the only thing they bring to the table are tax cuts, corporate tax cuts...which will do nothing to curb the deficit and nothing to help the average person in this country.
I heard a "progressive" talk show host...for the time ever....state that a "Revolution" is coming. Yes, we've heard it from Glen Beck a thousand times...but never have I heard it from a real progressive, and he's not a progressive as Glen Beck paints them out to be.
Everyone wants the fraudulent activity to stop with the banks, they want corruption out, they want jobs back in this country, they want the Federal Reserve and Government to be transparent, they want big money out of Washington, they want accountability in government.
We CAN come together on this. I think we will. It's just not time yet. In 2011 it will really begin...if the economy holds up. If not...it could be sooner. But it will happen.
I just think Liberals needed to get burned...just as Conservatives did with Bush.
It's becoming blatantly obvious who is running our country and it's definitely not us.
[edit on 19-1-2010 by David9176]
we really need new faces in politics.
Originally posted by David9176
reply to post by Avenginggecko
Unfortunately, I think we'll just continue with the corporate status quo, which is exactly what corporate America wants.
This is what I don't understand:
Health insurance companies and big pharma were giving big contributions to Coakley's campaign...which to me signifies that they were going to get huge handouts or they wouldn't support her as she was the 60th vote.
So what is it? The health insurance industry against the rest of the corporations? What you are stating makes this the only viable plausible answer...IMO...and that..in essence...means the average person has no representation.
Originally posted by amari
Scott Brown being elected is one giant leap forward for the citizens of this
country and one giant step backwards for the Democratic Party. ^Y^