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City councilor shows support for occupiers
By adamg on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 3:47pm
Ethan Long snapped City Councilor Tito Jackson (Roxbury) at Occupy Boston's tent city in Dewey Square yesterday. Jackson tweeted today:
It is power and momentum in the making! Inspired! Get up stand up!
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Grossman too
That's Grossman with his back to the camera as well!
Meanwhile the same pols are
Meanwhile the same pols are collecting donations from the big banks.
So?
Vote them out! Or make them THINK you have the power to do so.
Money and lobbying is meaningless if people actually GOTV. Obama and the Dems were elected to office in 2008 with only ~47% of eligible voters taking time out of their day to vote. That's 28-29% (guessing) voting for them.
That dropped to ~36% in the 2010 midterms, and the GOP had a better GOTV operation. So, whats that, only about 15-15% of Dems got out and voted.
And liberals have the nerve to blame the Dem's & Obama on the GOP obstruction that they voted in because of their own apathy or vanity?
When you don't vote, politicians can focus on very narrow interests to get the votes they need to get elected. When more people vote, they have to be more reality based, build a broader coalition, and have a track record of good governance.
So next time someone tells you they're all the same, or why bother a vote is worth nothing; smack them up the head and tell them how wrong they really are.
Their corporate fed disillusionment is the reason why things are so messed up. They're believing the lie that is fed to them about civic and politics, and throwing away their say... which is exactly what the plan has been all along.
Vote people.
In the 2008 Presidential
In the 2008 Presidential election 63% of eligible voters participated; that's a pretty good turnout for the US.
Man, they really look like
Man, they really look like they're deeply involved with discussing the movement, don't they? Jackson looks like he's incredulously asking "they're protesting WHAT?!?", wow, that's funny.