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2/ But our public policies work too often in direct opposition to that goal. Public policy guided by support for short term corporate profits - due to the undue financial influence of the corporate sector - is the opposite of policy guided by an intention to help people thrive.
3/ Yet people who have been so disempowered cannot expect the same political establishment that disempowered them to simply change its mind. It won’t. The corruption is too entrenched at this point. The only way that things will change is if we change the face of Washington. VOTE
And what happens when those who will vote are disenfranchised due to gerrymandering. The whole election machine is corrupt.
Absolutely. But we have to vote in the people who will change that. The House passed a good law to do it -HR 1 -but it won’t pass because Republicans are still in charge of the Senate. That’s the whole point. Vote as if your life depended on it; your democracy certainly does.
Two party system (and MSM) makes changing the face of Washington nearly impossible. We should work from bottom up, by changing the face of the city council, the district officials, the school board, etc.
That’s voting too. But voting progressives into Congress is hugely important as well. So many people being disengaged from the process is part of how things got so bad. http://Progressivecandidatesummit.com has some good suggestions
“By the people”, not “Buy the people”
We need to change ourselves first. http://www.saveourhomeworld.org The People need to do more than follow leaders. They need to BECOME leaders... be dynamically ENGAGED in democratic activism. Not just informed- ENGAGED!!!
Your whole thread is 100% accurate! 
Yes ... the real key ... is ... to ... VOTE!
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