Americans want.
Lip service at election time is pretty much what we get.

no more lip service for us.

I'm sure that will galvanize the global community into action.

Words! Words! Words! I'm so sick of words!
I get words all day through;
First from him, now from you! Is that all you blighters can do?
......
Sing me no song! Read me no rhyme!
Don't waste my time, Show me!
......
Don't talk at all! Show me!
Never do I ever want to hear another word.
There isn't one I haven't heard.
.......
Say one more word and I'll scream!
.......
Please don't "expl'ine," Show me! Show me!
Don't wait until wrinkles and lines
Pop out all over my brow,
Show me now!

(Thank you, Lerner and Loewe!)

Just look at universal background checks, raising the minimum wage, tax dollar give-aways to big oil and thousands of other issues.

We've changed the system some and have made progress towards becoming a representative democracy, but the fact is we are in the midst of a centuries long struggle for economic equality. Some, not understanding that, engage in constant attacks on the representatives of the party that is pushing against the current in the direction of equality. IMO that response is little more than cutting off your nose to spite your face. We'll accomplish nothing by weakening the party as a whole.

All I'm saying is that we need to keep the spotlight and pressure on those like the Kochs who are directly responsible for the distortions in the system.

Attack those who are causing the disease and the symptoms will take care of themselves.

There is a HUGE difference and you only serve the interests of the right wing by obscuring that philosophical difference. Again, keep the pressure on the disease and the symptoms will take care of themselves.

"If people have to choose between a real Republican and a Democrat who acts like a Republican, they'll vote for the real Republican every time." ~ Harry S. Truman

If you work on putting a face to the 1% and how they are screwing everyone else, the rest will take care of itself. The philosophy of the Dem party is diametrically opposed to the right wing agenda and the Republican party.

Every time you convince someone there is no difference you are doing the work of the Republicans and their 1% masters.

... what I do is remind people that our Party is supposed to be very different, and that when that gets eroded by conservatives like the Third Way it weakens us. Our strength comes from advocating very different policies. We get weaker when we advocate Republican-like policies.

We are, however, greatly weakened by folks like yourself, who try to stymie all criticism of the Party.

And when you depress the vote, the 1% wins every time.

We're not going to win by trying to peel of the mythical "moderate Republican". We'll win by advocating for progressive policies.

See Elizabeth Warren, or Tammy Baldwin, for examples.

You spend your time attacking, not promoting.

I will continue to attack every Third Way corporate Dem who compromises our Party's principles. If you don't like it, I have to wonder why.

This statement is what I'm responding to.
I don't question your intent, just saying the execution needs better targeting.

As I wrote, we've made progress from a structure of "representative democracy" where the Upper House was, by design, composed of the elite and given the lion's share of power within the policymaking structure.

We've struggled to expand the vote from a sliver of the population to universal suffrage, and in the process won the right to elect popular representatives to that body. That is the way we have wrested resources from the one percent.

Now they are using different tactics but it is still that same group struggling for control. Focus your attention on them and the message of economic justice and stop attacking the party that is philosophically aligned with what you want.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024483079

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for members of congress.
you have to start somewhere.