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(12,121 posts)teaparty, forcing them to do Medicare for All. Forcing them to stop the wars and invest in education and environmental protection again.
I've got to pour into the streets in December against drone warfare like I did to stop the Invasion of Iraq. The Bush gang wouldn't listen but President Obama might, if we poured into the streets by the thousands demanding our taxes go to students and not the giant corporations.
So let's push our president back into the White House and Democrats into both houses of Congress and then push them hard in December to not only let the Bush tax cuts expire but also raise the taxes at the top and use our taxes to pay for Medicare not Warfare.
I wrote lots of emails against "bipartisan" concepts but I didn't surge into the street to be the intimidating force that Democrats would now have to listen to, like the GOP and its demanding tea parties. (Well actually I did join some noisy pro-single-payer demonstrations, but we didn't have thousands, we only had hundreds with us, and no corporate media to magnify our numbers.)
I just mean that yes, here we are again wishing our legislators hadn't been so hungry for money in the Beltway bubble, pretending we wanted bipartisanship when we really wanted solid spine and healthcare for a desperate nation.
So let's push for our Democratic President Obama to be re-elected and then push hard in December to get rid of the crazy right wing policies our waffling party allowed into our government.
Most of us Americans would love our taxes to go for healthcare and education and environmental protection and I hope we will fight for those things together, even after November. They will outspend us eight to one like they did in Wisconsin, so we need to turn up our numbers in the streets.