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(32,139 posts)There are real signs here that we out in the country can agree on some fundamental things. We are all being impoverished, 99 percent of us. We have all lost our representation. And we all see our futures being stolen by crony corporatists. We have been propagandized separately for years now to believe that we have nothing in common, even that the other side is less than human. But we do agree on some things, and in those narrow issues is our power to take our representation back.
I'm gonna link again to something I wrote about this a while back:
Every poll shows that Republicans are as angry as we are.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=2852587
We have been brainwashed for a long time with a poisonous, malignant message: that ANYTHING is better than standing next to a Republican, ever, on anything. But we are now at the point where it's being argued that it's better to slide into fascism than to even explore these areas in which we might, as human beings, be able to agree and unite strategically to take some power back.
Watch the patterns to see what's really happening here. We will be propagandized incessantly to herd us back into our own camps and our hatred toward each other. Watch the messaging closely. Notice the difference between those who acknowledge that coming together will be tricky because we have such different ideas about how to solve the problem, but who acknowledge that we share a common need to solve it ....and those who will dispense loathing and fear and every tactic in the book to stoke the hatred and push us back into partisan isolation and impotence. They will be the same voices that relentlessly defend every new corporate assault brought to us by smiling Third Way Democrats and Republicans.
Watch the patterns, and reject the propaganda. We need to solve this. We need to become the 99 percent.
Thank you for this OP, Willy. I think it's one of the most important that's been posted here in a long time.