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Populist Reform of the Democratic Party

Lindsay

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2. Thank you.

Reply to RiverLover (Original post)

Fri May 15, 2015, 11:31 AM

May 2015

I have been saying that we've gone from defining ourselves as a society to being defined by our leaders as an economy. And in that change of definition, they've taken away our humanity.

Of course, Toni Morrison says it much more clearly than I can.

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Toni Morrison - "The New Progressive Agenda: A Return to Citizenship" [View all] RiverLover May 2015 OP

Thank you, it is awesome but sad at the same time that we have to fight to be citizens sabrina 1 May 2015 #1

Bittersweet, Sabrina, it is. RiverLover May 2015 #3

Thank you. Lindsay May 2015 #2

I like that, RiverLover May 2015 #4

How about combining those two definitions? hedda_foil May 2015 #5

Brilliant! RiverLover May 2015 #8

Not only are we just consumers but "THEY - the rich and the corporations" are the citizens. We are jwirr May 2015 #6

Voting time, that's when we're important. And they pay all those policitcians to pander to us, RiverLover May 2015 #10

Left out the label "civilian". ieoeja May 2015 #7

True. Good point. /nt RiverLover May 2015 #9

AMERICANS aspirant May 2015 #11