Pushing back against overreach by American capitalism is a patriotic tradition. It’s why we have child labor laws. It’s why we have unions. It’s why we have financial & safety regulations. Government “of the people, by the people & for the people” is not some radical leftist plot
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All these laws were compromises to an angry working class rising up organized in rebellion. They got passed because their bosses were afraid of revolution. Are our bosses afraid of us now? Are we organized? Where then will our power come from? Moral outrage? Voting ain't it.
Money in politics and voter suppression is how the will of the people is fundamentally obstructed at this point. But a massive wave of voter participation in spite of that is central to the transformation.
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I agree, but change only comes as a compromise when people have the power on their own to compel capitulation to their needs. We need a strategy that combines boots on the ground, signs in the air, letters in the mail with voter participation. But voting by itself ain't it.
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No one is saying it is, but we’d be naïve to think brute force on any level wouldn’t be met by overwhelming suppression. That’s why there’s a spiritual element to all this as there was in the Indian Independence movement & the civil rights movement. We have to speak to conscience
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