Reply #96: If we want Progressive politics, we need lots and lots of Progressive grassroots organizing: [View All]

[struggle4progress]

we need an agreed-upon agenda, and we need thousands and thousands of people organized 24/7 to push for that agenda by tracking legislators and regulators and leaning on them all the time

Corporate interests control the media and maintain an army of lobbyists to pressure Congress and statehouses and agencies and the courts and the public CONTINUALLY for their objectives -- the pressure never ends

When we organize comparable pressure for our objectives, we'll start winning. Until then, not so much

"Obama has lots of power! He should do all this stuff!" -- Well, that's rather like expecting him to stand somewhere in the Mississippi River and push it back upstream by himself