Progressive Challenge For 2010

http://ourfuture.org—Campaign for America's Future co-directors Robert Borosage and Roger Hickey look back at the progressive movement in 2009 and lay out the challenges for 2010. They say an independent progressive movement is essential to hold President Obama to his promises and to hold Congress accountable to the people. The political agenda they lay out for 2010 includes strengthening health care reform, keeping the economic recovery and job production on track, financial reform and protecting the social safety net. (Video produced by Isaiah J. Poole)

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• progressive politics
• financial reform
• health care reform
• economic recovery

[carlokrenzelak]

i like how the one guy says teh senate and the institutions of government aren't working for democracy. he also stated that the government has to be more sensitive to the majority of the people. do these guys really think that didn't happen? the majority of americans just don't agree withthese guys

[terpis]

@KeeperOfTheWord

"think this through" yerself.

What in hell is "the state," intended to refer to, exactly?

Why this refusenik laundry list ("separate narrative") of acts that'll amount to a non-group of isolated cranks making a silly fetish of what used to be called "tuning out"?

'Power concedes nothing without demand'...

[terpis]

Seems to me a big "brutal" takeaway for progressives, in the wake of the even-shittier-than-anticipated­ track record of 2009, is a demand that center-left booster orgs like CAF (the term "veal pen" comes to mind) be made to justify their existence.

Sincerely: what good are you? Why stick w this incrementalist vision, in the wake of its delivering such a tragic buffet of shit sandwiches?

Isn't "change is brutal" a damage controlled restatement of Durbin's "the banks run this place"? WTF?

[KeeperOfTheWord]

Now walk away (1:50)? As I see it, little less than an overt repudiation of the institutions and processes of state will get so much as an attentive nod from the powers that be. If the state won't serve, forsake it. Forsake the parties. Forsake the courts. Refuse jury duty. Refuse military service. Refuse the ballot. Develop a separate narrative based on the premise that we are a people occupied by what has become in essence a foreign political power.

Think this through.