“Freedom is participation in power.” -- Marcus Cicero

[Jezza]

...studying 'n reading up on so-called "wacky" Progressive Liberals... there's the label Democratic Socialist ideal, which has a piqued a lot of interest; it's an ideal platform built with planks of Single-Payer Medicare, Taxing Super-Rich to pay for education, increase minumum wage, and reform everything-that-the-corporatists have snuck by these past decades.

The Progressives of the dem party have encouraged a new energy of politics... true Liberal Revolt!

i love it! 'an wanna go dig out the old BlueDog painting i bought in New Orleans

how did this phenomenon happen? there's a history to study...
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us GenXers are the great-grandsons and granddaughters of the Great Depression ... back in 1932, my own grandPap lost the Farm to First National Bank at the age of 15 (just after our great-granddad died). soon after, in 1934, FDR began programs to protect workers and farmers with policy to dismantle centralized banks (corporate control) in the US that had triggered that great depression. -- The very same condition that today's duopoly of Demo"crap"ublican-Corporatists have permitted to perpetuate resulting in huge personal-debt in our country -- At that time, FDR was in-fact called progessive, intended as an insult; and took action (like Bernie Sanders who's suggesting a similar (r)evolution now...) on Education, Civil-Rights, Immigration, Citizenship Reform, Farming/Food Reform, Police Reform, Taxes, public works programs (...geez, sounds a lot like FDR's CCCC) et al.

many of these post-WWII programs helped the country of that generation. after my grandfather came back from WWII, found work building some of the great steel bridges in west virginia that today still provide infrastructure.
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a tide of greed also propagated from that incredible growth after WWII, where so many people were working longer and longer hours for low wage. (again, similar to today). in 1961, President Eisenhower (the retired five-star general) gravely warned the American people of the “military-industrial complex” and its threat to our liberties and well-being. (ie, he recognized then corporatists taking over our country.)
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“Welfare in America was supposed to be a safety net for those in need, but instead, it’s become an insider’s game of power and profit,” Schweizer, referring especially to the food stamp program’s contractors like J. P. Morgan.

...many posts already on banking and wallstreet corruption, but we never hear enough about the other huge corruption; the food industry. (except from independent documentaries, organic food eaters, and occassional progressive politicians)
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by the 70s and through the 80s all of the farm bills came to pass. where the military-industrial complex began transforming into what is now corporatism; which is committed the greatest horror of the 20th century, the economic rape of the American family farms. (subsidizing corn killed this country's most valuable assets/resource); not to mention NAFTA (1993) and WTO (1995) contributing even more to destroy the mexican farms as well. horrible unemployment in mexico directly contributes to the "imigration issue". it's not just a civil-rights issue, but basic economics.
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now 30+ years later "...we're tired of corn!!", but GMO corps such as Monsanto are wanting more so, like the wallstreet giant goldmansachs, they fund presidential campaigns and sit on our supreme court to protect their greed too...
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this Corporatists mission of building up wallstreet monsters such as Monsanto has to be changed by voting against them ... (Monsanto funds Hillary, by-the-way).

i am glad more and more people seem to notice that this election is like the Billionaires & Corporatists vs our Country???
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interesting how history parallels from the 1938 fights between FDR and the same dogmas in past weeks' positions mentioned by all three HClinton/TKruz/Rubio... All pushed apparent semantics according to their afiliated (Dem/GOP) political party. but they all say the same thing between the lines of influence by superPACs and corporatist backers (Monsanto & JPMorgan & DuPont and GoldyLocks...)
(** note, i don't mention Trump, as he's just an honest Billionaire not even trying to hide his intent; but just as horrible)
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So, the Progressive-Liberal Democratic Socialist... used to be The Democrats. but today the party is infiltrated with so much corporatism, that the true liberals still in the party can't stand for it. the talk of a new party is happening more and more, and that is good.

our democratic party needs to go to its base platforms of civil-rights, war on poverty, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, and foreign aid, immigration reform, and now tax policy changes to tax the superrich more and midclass less.

is time to now go another direction. Bernie Sanders is at the right place at this particular juncture in time. ...and i do hope as many people get out, study history, and pay attention to the real important issues. look at the "what"... what action, what vote, what support have each candidate actually done... not just said.

i for one, would love a woman president; but one who holds true progressive planks like Elizabeth Warren. until she runs, i am going fer da Bern, perhaps he paves a way for future smart leaders with integrity on liberal ideals and economics.

vote, vote, vote!
is time our country grows together again.

[tk2kewl]

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