Oh my god cant BELIEVE what I just heard Cenk Uyger just say

[JHan]

110. that's contradictory ..

on the one hand you say: " our inability to mount an effective rhetorical attack on the GOP has so much to do with our own financial ties. " and then you say "How much worse one side is than the other isn't in any question, " EDIT: The first statement is making an insinuation about the motives of Democrats, you might as well say Dems are just as bad as repubs on this issue.

We already agree big money is a problem in politics, but the party that made it even more problematic are not Democrats, but Republicans. To argue otherwise by saying that because so and so got money means Dems and Republicans are the same is spinning a false narrative like claiming Dems and Republicans are "Tweedle Dum" and "Tweedle Dee" - they are NOT as you noted.

My view is that the system is corrupt, one side is more responsible for that. The ideal solution are publicly funded elections but we aren't there yet. When facing a well-funded, synchronized opposition, I'll lean a bit on Alinsky in such imperfect times

"Action is for mass salvation and not for the individual’s personal salvation. He who sacrifices the mass good for his personal conscience has a peculiar conception of “personal salvation”; he doesn’t care enough for people to be “corrupted” for them." ...

"He who fears corruption, fears life." - I interpret this to mean that we may need to use imperfect tools to further our agenda. It seems Republicans understand Alinsky better than some liberals do.