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Abortion is an economic issue along with being a women's health issue.

Also I get the impression some of you are longing to throw the pejorative SJW at other posters.

 

[cheezcake]

There is an existential undercurrent in this country about the encroachment of corporations onto every aspect of our lives, because they have reliable paid-for partnerships with people who are supposed to represent the will of the people they were elected represent. Through this state-private partnership, power players at the top have bought themselves unfair advantages over the rest of Americans, including deadly advantages such as being able to over-charge for mediocre health care that many can't afford.

This is an existential threat that destroys even black people, who are being persecuted by police (corporate enforcers?), who are all too comfortable feeding private/public prisons, where lo and behold, corporations have a den of free slave labor for their wares... in 2017. It's not surprising to find paid-for legislators who could give three fucks about black people, yet happily sign legislation to facilitate all of this.

Considering so many aspects of our lives suck because our government promotes monopolies/oligopolies versus promoting more competition, Bernie progressives want fighters that will fight against this trend. If single-payer will cut the insurance bill by half, and will guarantee access to everyone, and if every other developed country in the world has figured out how to do it.... DON'T FUCKING TELL ME THIS POLICY IS TOO MUCH TOO FAST (because some lobbyists is whispering in your ear about campaign donations). If you are that kind of Democrat, you are NOT what the country needs right now.

Would you agree that the single most important step right now in curbing the influence of corporate money in politics is by introducing a constitutional amendment to overturn the Citizens United decision?

 

[Sinfamy]

I too love platitudes.
Wake me up when the party isn't led by Schumer or Pelosi.

 

[SatelliteOfLove]

Run vetted, at least solid contenders in every district for every state and US house seat.

Centrist/Left-of Center people in red districts.

Go wild with Progressives in blue ones.

Promote them.

Give them good money (don't dump it all in Sunbelt Suburban districts).

Give people a strong choice, even in "lost" states.

Make even R+10 incumbents sweat bullets.

You'll lose some. That's OK. You'll win more than what you got now.

Then, once you flip body politics, toss on the minimum raise hikes, dank decriminilizations, smarter regulations, etc. Can't do that without butts in seats.

And for God's sake, don't forget this 2-4 years down the road and go back to retreating to "safe" districts or fearing to say "Im a liberal" proudly. I saw yall hiding from Obama in '10 and '14.

Will it be like the GOP who has campaigned for 8 years on the issues they can't put forward even when in full control of government, tho?

Dems did shit when they had a Federal hat trick in '08 other than meltdown.

 

[El_Tiguere]

Would you agree that the single most important step right now in curbing the influence of corporate money in politics is by introducing a constitutional amendment to overturn the Citizens United decision?

Absolutely. A 1970's Powell Memo laid the groundwork for the deliberate corporate takeover of our government, so there is a LOT to undo. Public financing of elections, rules around lobbying, enforcing anti-trust rules that are already in the books, cutting the wasteful corporate welfare that is leaps and bounds above welfare to support poor people, etc. etc. etc.

Democrats that have their ears out for their big donors above all else, don't want to hear any of this,. They like their current gravy train, but we are at a general crisis point for American workers. Siding with the corps on life/death issues for American will no longer be tolerated.