Let’s abandon the Democrats: Stop blaming Fox News and stop hoping Elizabeth Warren will save us

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75. You are so right... People voted FOR many liberal candidates and issues they believed in...

... even if in the same state two corporate funding obsessed candidates in races usually had the Republicans winning.

The problems are that we ALLOW ourselves to be divided by the corporate media and the rest of the corporate 1% message machine to focus on just looking at divisive social issues. The right wingers focus more on and are motivated more by these social issues (gay marriage, women's rights, etc.) which motivates them to vote for the right wing candidates championing them.

But many of these same voters are also anti-bankster, and believe the false narrative that the corporate and bankster takeover of our government is all Obama's and the Democrats fault, because that is what the right wing spin machine feeds them. They don't like getting pushed out of their jobs by outsourcing from free trade deals or "guest worker" programs any more than we do, but are lead to believe that it is Democrats and "government" (rather than those that fund the corporate corruption of our government) that is at fault, and fault Democrats for wanting to expand the size of this government that they blame for everything. Yes, the DINO DLC/Third Way elements that have welcomed corporate cash and have lead Obama's administration to push free trade deals and not prosecuting bankster criminals have fed this narrative, even if many of the Democratic constituency is frankly getting damn fed up with this kind of policies that many in our leadership are engaged in that fuel this narrative.

What this tells me is that if we can find a way around the corporate message machine and fuel a true progressive movement lead by progressive candidates that won't accept money for government influence, and make it very public that they are against those elements in both parties and champion the issues that the corporate media avoids where even the right shows that they are fed up with too, we'll have a big winner, and we can take the first steps towards throwing out the corporate corruption that has been almost a terminal cancer in our government.

Now, many of these social issues that we're divided on are still very important for us to stand strong on, but I think we need to take a step back and say that the fundamental issues that affect the way our democracy functions systemically are the issues we need to prioritize this coming election, because I think if we can do it the right way, I think we can get bipartisan support to throw the corporate BUMS out of office and work towards restoring a government that our founders wanted and wouldn't hate like they probably would our current government if they were still alive.

If we can have a non-corrupted government, I think we can have a more honest and perhaps civil discussion on what kind of rules we should have on social issues, and maybe not be as far apart on many of them as we are today in a way that still protects the rights and well being of all americans, and even those in the rest of the world too that are affected by our global interference policies with faulty trade agreements and military industrial complex pushed wars.