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cascadiance

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6. Respond with an "anti" corporatist caucus...
Thu Jan 31, 2013, 02:54 PM
Jan 2013

There are many Republicans, as much as we might hate a lot of other things they espouse, that likely hate the banksters and the other corporatists. The problem is that they aren't well informed about these issues as their media keeps this information from them and focuses on the social issues that they alienate them from the rest of America with to draw them in.

We should start another caucus that isn't so focused just on progressive causes, but on those that we can all agree on, and see if we can appeal to independents, and some Republicans with that. When they start to realize that we have corporatists in both parties that are running the show and manipulating the hell out of us, they will realize that to level the playing field so that we can have a healthy democracy to help us decide other issues, etc. that we need to get the corporatist control of them out of the picture.

This is a tricky battle to fight, but I think there are issues here and there like taxation policy, accountability for corporate wrongdoing, etc. where we can get a lot more agreement on.

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