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Sure, but how do we take the power back? Citizens United cannot be undone with the current lot of criminals in charge, and if they have already rigged 1 major election, what's to stop them from doing more?
It is the responsibility of our elected representatives to do our bidding, and fight for us, and defend us. Unfortunately, they tend to need us just for our votes, and once they're in office, they tend to favor those who donated to them, not those who voted for them.
Thats the primary thing that needs to change. We voted for them, and they need to obey US. How do we do it? By making them fear for their jobs, and their personal freedom. We have to start throwing our collective weight around, and making them consider us first. Once they have learned to fear us, we have to exploit that, and make them do our bidding, or they can fear us even more.
The Dems are already learning that lesson. They had a government shutdown last Fall, and it got to the point that people were really suffering over the end of food assistance. Then it hit the airports, and the Epstein Class couldn't move their operatives around the country, and the Dems folded immediately, and got nothing. People were OUTRAGED, and it pretty much ruined any chances of the MAGA comedy act of Schmuck & Jeffries continuing on as leaders when this is over.
So when the partial shutdown hit the airports this time, the Dems remembered how outraged everybody got when they surrendered last time, and they've held tight this time. It won't help Schmuck & Jeffries, they still have to go. When we take power back, we need leaders who know how to wield it, and know how to bludgeon MAGA to death with it.
So that's the first step - elect Democratic leaders who are brave, angry, and want to take the fight to MAGA, instead of the insipid cowards we have now.