It's time to wake up and smell the roses

[randr]

Two articles today point out a fact that we many times ignore. We are the majority. Our issues are the issues of the people of this country. A new Newsweek poll, http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040124/nysa010a_1.html, shows a larger percentage of people STRONGLY OPPOSSED to the reelection of * yet an even larger percentage think he will likely be put back in office.
Ever since the buzz phrase "moral majority" was coined, most Americans have suffered from a sense of disenfranchisment. The fact that the "moral majority" was neither never sunk in. The far right have spun this illusion so sucessfully that they now have control of both houses, the presidency, the judiciary, and are attempting to spread their control into our very lives. An article in the Progressive by Bernie Sanders, http://www.progressive.org/feb04/sand0204.html, explains clearly how this is happening.
It is time we start to accept and acknowledge our position. We are "the People of the United States". We need to stop accepting the spin that separates us from one another. We need to identify the issues and problem that need fixing and proceed to work on solutions that will benefit all Americans.
To paraphrase a much used slogan from the 60's:
We have met the enemy and we know who they are!

[rockymountaindem]

1. I thought so...

I always thought that the Repubs. owned the world, althought that probably had something to do with the fact that in Colorado, I never saw another liberal. Just recently I looked at some polls and figured out that more people like us than the Repubs. I saw as poll at pollingreport.com (sorry, it was a while ago, I don't remember where on the site I saw it) in which more people had a positive view of our party than the Repubs. Now that I know I'm in the majority I feel so much better. Perhaps we should rename this site to...


democratic-overlords.com

Just an idea

[randr]

4. Add to this the number

of people claiming to be republicans who have not yet figured out what side their bread is buttered on.
From the Sanders article:
To be effective politically, we cannot talk only to people who agree with us. That's easy. The hard part is going out and talking to people in the working and middle classes who don't yet agree with us. And we have to understand that on some issues there will be differences of opinion. But if we focus on the basic economic issues--and we explain to people that when they cast their votes solely on issues like abortion, or gay rights, or any other single issue, the rich and the powerful are laughing all the way to the bank--we will be successful in bringing people together and winning elections.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

2. 39,000,000 registered Dems......29,000,000 registered repukes in the USA

Dems look like the MAJORITY to me! nuff said

[Sushi_lover]

3. the media is run by our opposition

major media actively campaigns for corporate interests and use the idea of a "moral majority" as a wedge

[blondeatlast]

5. Been a while since this site got a plug:

http://www.conceptualguerilla.com/beattherightinthree.htm

The originator of the phrase "Cheap Labor Conservatives."

[G_j]

6. Bernie Sanders: "We Are The Majority"

couldn't get your link to work, so here is another to Bernie Sanders piece.
This is a must read!!

www.commondreams.org/views04/0121-12.htm

Published in the February, 2004 issue of The Progressive

We Are the Majority

by Bernie Sanders

 How do we build a political movement in this country that represents all of the people and not a handful of millionaires?
The middle class is collapsing, the people on top are making out like bandits, and the poorest people are struggling just to keep their heads above water.

Today, the concentration of wealth and income in this country is not only greater than at any time since the 1920s, but it is far greater than in any other major country on Earth.

It is not acceptable that the wealthiest 1 percent of the population owns more wealth than the bottom 95 percent.
That's not America.

It is not acceptable that the 13,000 wealthiest families in this country earn more income than the bottom twenty million families.

It is not acceptable that the greed of corporate America has resulted in the CEOs of large corporations earning over 500 times what their average worker makes.

That's not America, and we're going to change that.
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