I protest for many reasons, but at the head of the monster there is the phenomenal wealth that is being used to bribe our democratically elected officials in both parties, and I don't know how true reform is achieved without confronting this behemoth.

I know what the GOP stands for, they stand for the interests of the super rich and powerful and they will use any means to achieve that end.

I have no idea what the Democratic party stands for anymore. Sure, they talk a good game, but when push comes to shove I don't think the Democratic party stands for ANYTHING, other than the feigned consensus forged between every bribe taking Republican and a growing crowd of bribe taking Democrats. Since 2009 I have seen the Democratic Establishment squander every opportunity to hold the GOP accountable for lying us into Iraq and selling a laundry list of failed ideas that harm the majority of Americans while tremendously benefiting big business and the super rich. Now, the new 2011 version of the Democratic Establishment seems hell bent yet again to commit political suicide for the 2nd time in 6 months in order to achieve the bipartisan collusion with the GOP on behalf of their undying fealty to the special interests who have bribed them in their pursuit of free markets under austerity for all, and while all this takes place before our eyes in the open the media asks me "Why are you protesting? What are your demands?" as if they are blind and can not see the bribery taking place. It is because, obviously, the media is entirely corrupt too.

I am reminded of JFK's speech 50 years ago about what makes a liberal

I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, in human liberty as the source of national action, in the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas. It is, I believe, the faith in our fellow citizens as individuals and as people that lies at the heart of the liberal faith. For liberalism is not so much a party creed or set of fixed platform promises as it is an attitude of mind and heart, a faith in man's ability through the experiences of his reason and judgment to increase for himself and his fellow men the amount of justice and freedom and brotherhood which all human life deserves.

I believe also in the United States of America, in the promise that it contains and has contained throughout our history of producing a society so abundant and creative and so free and responsible that it cannot only fulfill the aspirations of its citizens, but serve equally well as a beacon for all mankind. I do not believe in a superstate. I see no magic in tax dollars which are sent to Washington and then returned. I abhor the waste and incompetence of large-scale federal bureaucracies in this administration as well as in others. I do not favor state compulsion when voluntary individual effort can do the job and do it well. But I believe in a government which acts, which exercises its full powers and full responsibilities. Government is an art and a precious obligation; and when it has a job to do, I believe it should do it. And this requires not only great ends but that we propose concrete means of achieving them.

Our responsibility is not discharged by announcement of virtuous ends. Our responsibility is to achieve these objectives with social invention, with political skill, and executive vigor. I believe for these reasons that liberalism is our best and only hope in the world today. For the liberal society is a free society, and it is at the same time and for that reason a strong society. Its strength is drawn from the will of free people committed to great ends and peacefully striving to meet them. Only liberalism, in short, can repair our national power, restore our national purpose, and liberate our national energies. And the only basic issue in the 1960 campaign is whether our government will fall in a conservative rut and die there, or whether we will move ahead in the liberal spirit of daring, of breaking new ground, of doing in our generation what Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman and Adlai Stevenson did in their time of influence and responsibility.

Jesse, get yer man Bernie Sanders to stop being independent and create a new national party around him. Elect him president.

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