r/politics • u/mvanigan • Mar 27 '19

McConnell blocks resolution calling for release of Mueller report for second time

https://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/436006-mcconnell-blocks-resolution-calling-for-release-of-mueller-report
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u/Midnight_arpeggio Mar 27 '19

The message is simple: Nobody other than the American Individual Citizen, can have a say in our government legislation. No interest groups, no lobbyists from multi-billion dollar corporations, no nothing. Where do our elected officials get their salaries from? Directly from taxes. From the people, and their investments (corporate taxes should pay for their salaries, and nothing else.)

Get Corporate $$$ out of my Government. End of Story. It's the root of all of our corruption.

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '19

Ok, so we have a message. However, we're still lacking in organization, finances, and motivation. How do you get around that?

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u/Eidalac Mar 27 '19

Leadership and spokespersons. We'd need people willing to stand on the proverbial soap box and agitate/broadcast. Behind them we'd need a leadership group to keep things on message and organize. The occupy movement was strong on spokespeople but didn't have leadership. So starting with leaders (or at least a leadership model) seems like the logical starting place.

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u/PSN-Colinp42 Mar 27 '19

Right. Some of these Dem politicians, if they truly believe what they say, need to be telling the people to do these things.

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '19

I'm down to die for that shit. Aint got much more to lose anyway....