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Populist Reform of the Democratic Party

RiverLover

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3. Bittersweet, Sabrina, it is.

Reply to sabrina 1 (Reply #1)

Fri May 15, 2015, 11:33 AM

May 2015

Harnessing the energy is key & it will have to be DESPITE mainstream media leading the way in our consumer culture.

Media is such a big hurdle. Unfortunately it wields enormous power in shaping people's perceptions & manipulates emotions...

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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