Gabrielle Giffords Weighs 'Gabby PAC' As Next Career Move

What I mean when I talk about Democratic policies and legislation is the populist, leftist platform that the Democratic Party has but does not follow.

About 40 years ago was when corporate control and money began to infiltrate our system of politics and influence both Republicans and Democrats into deregulating and privatizing.  It took off in earnest in the 1980s, with Reagan and the Fepderalist Society and Lee Atwater and Ralph Reed and the Christian Coalition on the right and the DLC taking over the Democratic Party (also on the right).  

When I said, "Democrats don't get it", I should have been more precise - Democratic voters don't get it.  Democratic voters, by and large, don't realize that Democratic politicians are as bought and paid for as Republican politicians.  Nothing that has happened to get us to where we are today could have happened without Democrats having signed on.
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