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90-percent

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33. The solution is to elect somebody named Roosevelt
Sun Apr 21, 2013, 02:21 PM
Apr 2013

When the Glided Age became engorged with the overly rich and powerful, Teddy R. busted the trusts.

When the great depression needed to be repaired by the damage done by the rich and powerful, Franklin Delano got in and cleaned it up.

The rich have spent the last thirty years gaming everything in their favor at the expense of the bottom 99%. They own the media, they get fairness acts over turned, they get Glass Steagal overturned, they underwrite hate radio, they set legal precedents that it perfectly fine to knowingly lie in your news broadcasts. They've stripped almost all democracy out of our legal infrastructure to work in their favor. They've turned American news broadcasts into Corporate Propaganda.

Mitt Romney gets to put in a half million a year into his 401K and we peasants are legally restricted to, what, $6K per year?

And now they turned money into speech and corporations into people. Those with the most money have the most speech. Just what our Forefathers envisioned!

The only hope I see is that the greedy and powerful will overstep the rights and well being of the bottom 99% so nakedly and obscenely that we the people will rise up in revolt. As we will by then have nothing left to loose but our lives.

-90% Jimmy

Bernie Names Names [View all] Scuba Apr 2013 OP
Becoming? It always has been. But the time has finally come for the people to rule. reformist2 Apr 2013 #1
That'll never happen, but the least the rich bastards could do is toss us crumbs. nt valerief Apr 2013 #7
Yeah, they could have given a million to each American hoping to buy us off. Bigger game afoot here. freshwest Apr 2013 #34
We Agree Bernie - However We No Longer Have The Power (Citizens United) Or The Will To Change cantbeserious Apr 2013 #2
FALSE--we have the power, but we have to seize it. lastlib Apr 2013 #21
Don't See That Happening - Which Means That Citizens United Has Had The Intended Effect cantbeserious Apr 2013 #48
Please be specific. How do we seize power? nm rhett o rick Apr 2013 #56
We organize.* Demand of every candidate for every office from dog-catcher to president.... lastlib Apr 2013 #62
"Do we have the will?" Of course we dont if you are including the American people. rhett o rick Apr 2013 #63
Bernie makes a lot of sense.... Let's overturn that discriminatory law that favors speech for midnight Apr 2013 #3
+1000 abelenkpe Apr 2013 #4
Let's overturn that discriminatory law that favors speech for those JDPriestly Apr 2013 #11
Actually Siegelman reappointed the guy to the board bigbrother05 Apr 2013 #23
+1000000000000000000000 blackspade Apr 2013 #5
Its just like the oil companies swindling us on gas prices INdemo Apr 2013 #6
IF we could convince Bernie dotymed Apr 2013 #13
We would need about 60 more INdemo Apr 2013 #24
If we had strong Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress xtraxritical Apr 2013 #26
I did not author the original post or start this thread INdemo Apr 2013 #74
Bernie running for President? tex-wyo-dem Apr 2013 #64
IMO, Bernie could have much more impact as POTUS. dotymed Apr 2013 #72
Check out the documentary "Citizen Koch" Ninga Apr 2013 #8
There's another documentary... Blanks Apr 2013 #14
Thank you Blanks! Ninga Apr 2013 #22
Thanks... I could not get the link to let me watch on demand so I queued it to first place.... midnight Apr 2013 #31
Thanks. Got there and found a trailer: freshwest Apr 2013 #35
K&R Iwillnevergiveup Apr 2013 #9
It's the people's fault too. They vote for people who lie to them often simply because of the letter sabrina 1 Apr 2013 #10
Sometimes you don't know you are being lied to. Sometimes you don't know someone will... L0oniX Apr 2013 #17
Please see #26 above. xtraxritical Apr 2013 #27
Mark Sanford in SC for example, there's someone you want SaveAmerica Apr 2013 #29
their most important tool is talk radio but the dems and the left ignore it. the stoprush boycott is certainot Apr 2013 #12
How, *exactly*, would you phrase such an amendment? Donald Ian Rankin Apr 2013 #15
Here's some language endorsed by Michael Moore ... Scuba Apr 2013 #50
Some good ideas and some nutty ones. Donald Ian Rankin Apr 2013 #51
Banning electronic voting machines would top of my list ... Scuba Apr 2013 #52
How about "if properly implemented, they're harder to defraud, and more accurate"? Donald Ian Rankin Apr 2013 #68
No one knows if electronic machines are accurate or rigged. That's the problem. Scuba Apr 2013 #71
Amend the Constitution to add "natural" before each instance of the word "person" Occulus Apr 2013 #81
Natural persons like the Koch brothers? Donald Ian Rankin Apr 2013 #84
All the more reason... ReRe Apr 2013 #16
Please see #26 above. xtraxritical Apr 2013 #28
What makes you think the Democratic party as a whole even *wants* a veto proof majority? Fumesucker Apr 2013 #30
In my day we would say "you're off the wall man". xtraxritical Apr 2013 #36
Eh, my theory handily explains the Democratic Senate not reforming the filibuster Fumesucker Apr 2013 #37
Yeah, well it's a weak majority in the Senate and I don't think it proves anything. xtraxritical Apr 2013 #38
No, it's that Democrats won't speak out on the issue n/t Fumesucker Apr 2013 #39
nailed it, fume Doctor_J Apr 2013 #43
Uh... you talkin' to me? ReRe Apr 2013 #41
More important than spending caps on wealthy donors, is public finance of poor candidates. reformist2 Apr 2013 #18
Thank you so much for not being afraid to speak out, Bernie. Obviously you don't have an owner judesedit Apr 2013 #19
What if we step outside the box altogether... OneGrassRoot Apr 2013 #20
I think that has possibilities dreamnightwind Apr 2013 #44
Exactly... OneGrassRoot Apr 2013 #47
Youtube chnnels are cool dreamnightwind Apr 2013 #49
Things would be so much better if we could take people like Bernie Sanders, Alan Grayson, AndyA Apr 2013 #25
Always agree with Bernie! cui bono Apr 2013 #32
The solution is to elect somebody named Roosevelt 90-percent Apr 2013 #33
Good keynote speech right there. Hopefully at the next DNC. If the party won't.... Smarmie Doofus Apr 2013 #40
Here you go: FDR III dreamnightwind Apr 2013 #45
200th rec Egalitarian Thug Apr 2013 #42
You tell 'em Bernie!!!! Fuck those traitors!!! Initech Apr 2013 #46
Thank you Senator Sanders for Heathen57 Apr 2013 #53
I love it when they call out villains by name. tclambert Apr 2013 #54
knr Douglas Carpenter Apr 2013 #55
Theodore Roosevelt, 1903; my new sig. earlier today CountAllVotes Apr 2013 #57
Great sig line upi402 Apr 2013 #60
Bernie for President!!! Catch2.2 Apr 2013 #58
Wake the media!!! upi402 Apr 2013 #59
kick Dawson Leery Apr 2013 #61
K&R Fumesucker Apr 2013 #65
i don't see anything new -- the rockefellers did a lot of political and quasi-political spending HiPointDem Apr 2013 #66
So are you suggestion we do nothing then? rpannier Apr 2013 #69
it's what you brought to the post that 'suggests' it, not anything i wrote. HiPointDem Apr 2013 #70
i apologise rpannier Apr 2013 #85
i'm saying the monied class has always run the country. who did you think ran it? HiPointDem Apr 2013 #86
I wish Bernie was president. lexw Apr 2013 #67
The problem is with congress and the courts. angry citizen Apr 2013 #73
Thx. I wasn't picking on Obama, I just think that Bernie is awesome. lexw Apr 2013 #75
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Both campaigns spent fortunes. One significant difference: Scuba Apr 2013 #78
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We're talking $400 million. $40K is chump change for the big boys. Scuba Apr 2013 #82
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If only our President would come out and say that.....oh well he's going to let the ... Hotler Apr 2013 #77
My only complaint about that statement gollygee Apr 2013 #80
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