Reply #12: I think we're failing to see something in this PR piece [View All]

[BR_Parkway]

We, here at DU, are actually in agreement with the underlying sentiment expressed in the letter, just not the actual direction that it's focusing that anger on.

I want my country back (from the corporate masters) & Sen X is a whore for the lobbyists

Now I have no doubt that it's a professionally written piece by some PR firm that routinely turns these out so they can get emailed to everyone on down the line.

But I think we sometimes underestimate that populist anger that is underneath on BOTH sides of the aisle. Think about the "change" we voted for - and how pissed off many are getting because it's a whole lot more business as usual than change.

But as the OP and responses actually shows - we spend more time focusing on what we don't agree with in that "letter" rather than the parts that we do. It's so much easier to keep both sides of the aisle pointing fingers at each other so that we don't pay attention to what's happening in DC (majority of population, not those of us political junkies who hang out in places like this)

Now I think that those on this side of the aisle are better at seeing through the BS and knowing what we're actually fighting against - when they see Glenn Beck & Rush up there stoking their racist side to the point of screaming "we want our country back" they think no further than that, most liberals and progressives actually take it that one step further to understand that there's a corporation giving them a platform and money because it furthers the corporation's interest, certainly not ours. And we do understand who we really need to take our country back from.

But we're fractured and divided - what we've got to figure out is how to couple their anger with ours - so that we can build enough pressure/votes on TPB into actually remembering who they were sent there to represent. Obviously, we'll never reach the 20% fringe (and wouldn't want to associate with many of them truth be told) - but there really is no reason that we shouldn't have 70-80% of the population, loudly and relentlessly fighting for real health care reform, real financial reform.

Can you imagine getting those type majorities to march into a Blue Dog's office to let him know he would be voting Yes on single payer? He couldn't get down to the floor fast enough to make a speech completely in favor of it.