We do not create the winds and the tides, the conditions that give rise to great social movements. So it is important to achieve power in other ways. And in a representative democracy, it matters whom we elect to office and hold accountable for public policy.
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People yearn for a 'politics of the center' —not 'the center' so widely discussed by politicians and pundits in Washington but rather a politics that speaks to the center of people's lives: affordable child care, good education for children, health security, living-wage jobs that will support famili…
Politics is what we create by what we do, what we hope for, and what we dare to imagine.
I think the future also will not belong to those who are cynical or those who stand on the sidelines. The future will belong to those who have passion and are willing to work hard to make our country better.
We didn't win by matching pollster against pollster, ad against ad, image maker against image maker. We won by including citizens in an inspiring grassroots campaign.
To recap: Republicans are currently defending a pedophile in order to save a Senate seat so that they can push through an enormous tax cut for the rich because it's the only victory their leader, another sexual predator, may get after colluding w/ Russia to steal our election.
The Bernie campaign is hypersensitive to any whiff of being treated as a smaller, protest candidacy, to failures to acknowledge that Sanders won more than 40 percent of the primary vote, or to being dismissed by what they see as the Democratic establishment. And an endorsement of Hillary Clinton by…