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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI'm ready to give up politics and go whole hog "occupy".
I think our only chance against Citizens United is to take it to the streets.
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I'm ready to give up politics and go whole hog "occupy". (Original Post)
Laurian
Jun 2012
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pnwmom
(108,955 posts)1. Please wait till after November 6.
Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)3. Too late.
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)6. Absolutely not. nt
deaniac21
(6,747 posts)2. Go whole Hog to Razorback country!!
julian09
(1,435 posts)4. Was occupy in Wisconsin or even tweet.
what a disappointment they turned out to be.
marmar
(77,053 posts)8. Occupy Milwaukee has been involved in anti-Walker actions since last year.....
...... please do a Google search before making such ill-informed commentary.
marmar
(77,053 posts)5. In reality, that's what it's going to take......
...... If there's one good thing that will come out of this, and the extremist policies that are sure to result, is a more radicalized population that's ready to hit the streets.
socialist_n_TN
(11,481 posts)9. Yep. As Trotsky said...........
(paraphrasing) We'll try it your way (electoral politics), only to show you nothing will change.
Real change will only come from the streets. The capitalists OWN the voting booth. Well, the machines that count the votes anyway.
Personally, I was expecting this outcome. I'm just surprised they made the margin so unrealistically large.
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)7. +100000 nt
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)10. The SCOTUS Republican majority has got to go
if we want Citizens United overturned. That's the only surefire way it can be defeated.