Roundtable Discussion Group – Fighting The Political Bankruptcy
“I think it’s time that we seriously considered the possibility that American politics are irrevocably broken. How will we, the progressives, the lefties, the liberals, the activists, the anti-war radicals, and all the other energized souls of America reshape this country in order to advance the progressive agenda from outside the body politic?” Shamaniac, blogging on Sister Shakespeare
This quote from yesterday’s Madman in the Marketplace diary, Bowing to the Inevitable: Why the Democratic Party Fails Its Base, stirred a lot of discussion. The general consensus seems to be that we have reached (passed?) a point of political bankruptcy in this country with both parties answering to the same corporate masters and not to the people they are supposed to represent. Short of giving up, the question is: what can we do about it now?
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