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Populist Reform of the Democratic Party

rhett o rick

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7. Funny you bring this up. In another thread I have been in a discussion about how we

Reply to sabrina 1 (Reply #4)

Fri Feb 20, 2015, 08:33 PM

Feb 2015

need to continue to push the President on TPP, etc. The other person tries to minimize our success with pressure by claiming that Obama would have gone that way anyway. An example I used was the pressure on Tom Wheeler to back off his original proposal to allow the industry to control the internet. Millions responded and he backed off. The New Democrats tell us to have blind FAITH.

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I can't believe this thing is an issue marym625 Feb 2015 #1

It's only a corporate giveaway. Enthusiast Feb 2015 #2

yep marym625 Feb 2015 #5

Kicked and recommended a whole bunch! Enthusiast Feb 2015 #3

Thank you, public pressure does work if there is enough of it. It slowed down the TPP for a while sabrina 1 Feb 2015 #4

I wish everyone felt that way marym625 Feb 2015 #6

If you have a twitter account it is a much better way to get stuff like this out to the general sabrina 1 Feb 2015 #9

I actually had a pretty big following for a while marym625 Feb 2015 #10

It's a much more effective tool than sites that are focused only on elections. sabrina 1 Feb 2015 #11

I agree marym625 Feb 2015 #13

I will follow you, thanks for the handle. sabrina 1 Feb 2015 #14

Thanks! n/t marym625 Feb 2015 #15

Funny you bring this up. In another thread I have been in a discussion about how we rhett o rick Feb 2015 #7

Well, fortunately the 'New Democrats' are not a majority and the internet has grown sabrina 1 Feb 2015 #8

I have a twitter account aspirant Feb 2015 #16

We need to keep the pressure on for marym625 Feb 2015 #12