Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics, is the first task of the statesmanship of today.
— Party declaration of the Progressive Party of America, 1924
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As has been said many times, the more things change, the more they stay the same.
So what do we do about it? We change the world, that’s what!
stop playing into the two part lockstep system.
The dems are the same as the GOP they are beholden to the same corporte/banking interests as their GOP counterparts
The Dems exist solely to split the progressive vote and pay lip service to liberal ideas. Do you really think the Dems will stop the war? HAHAHAHAHA
Hillary Clinton? ROFL
Time to break out once and for all. Progressives threatened to take hold after the Great Depression, but FDR stopped that with the New Deal, a political CRUMB thrown to the masses to quell an incipient progressive revolution.
THIS TIME NO DEAL AT ALL. Or consign yourselves to being $2 a day debt slaves at walmart without living wage, benefits or anything else that justifies sucking your life away at menial labor.
If you think this is what the human condition is all about you are seriously derranged.