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Warpy

(113,131 posts)
8. "Party leaders" need to get outside the Beltway more often
Thu Sep 10, 2015, 10:50 PM
Sep 2015

If they did and stayed away from their usual upper middle class house parties, they might learn a thing or two. They might learn that "business as usual" lost them the House in 2010 and kept it out of their hands in 2014, along with the Senate. They might learn that "business as usual" is just what people don't want, since it's been killing 99% of us financially. They'd find out we don't want handouts like the Republicans tell them we do, we want jobs that pay us enough to live on. They might find out a lot of us have gone into debt to "retrain," only to find out the jobs we retrained for got sent overseas during the time we were in school. They might find out how sick we are of seeing everything going to 0.1% of the people in this country while we work longer hours and haven't had vacations in years. They might begin to understand just how close this country is getting to revolution, and how both Sanders and Trump are evidence of this, a complete rejection of both party leaderships and their "business as usual."

It's not going to sell any longer, guys, and if you don't find out why, you'll be the first to go.

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