Reticence created an enthuism gap

[JCanete]

47. You really believe that change just happens from inside without a push from the outside to make it

happen. Why? If there's no noise about something, there's no damn pressure to do it. Doing something only pisses off the people who helped you get elected, or finds enemies that were lying dormant. Why fuck with the status-quo when the status quo is how you even got elected? And assuming somebody had that integrity anyway, why would you assume that anybody else would add their voice to it, knowing what it meant for them?

We went a very very very very long time in Washington with almost no mention of money's influence on it from our elected officials. That changed by degrees under Obama, and Occupy Wall Street probably had a part in the level of discourse that the subject got in Obama's campaign against Romney.

I will never cease to be astonished that Democrats want to blame the voices that are out there demanding that our politicians fight for just causes for our losses.

I'm not sure what the point about Sanders and caucuses is. Is it that he is a hardcore liberal who pulled in voters who were not registered dems? That seems like a good thing?

I read your article on the Sanders amendment by the way, and I appreciate you providing it. I have all kinds of problems with that article, not the least of which is the person's willingness to compare money Sanders got from the industry at a national level, 300,000(vs clinton's 2.5? million) to Booker's state level contributions of 350,000. The article does point out that these 13 dems got as much financial backing from the industry as the 30 dems who voted for the bill. That certainly could mean nothing, but the argument that some people who voted for the bill were also big receivers of backing, is not a particularly compelling one...especially when there is a good reason to be suspicious of the games our lawmakers play....maybe its a question of who's turn it is to bite the bullet? As to the quality of the amendment...well fix it...or put forward something better that does the same thing.