It doesn't get covered by the corporate media (imagine that), but mainstream polls consistently find that big majorities of Americans are not meek centrists, but overt, tub-thumping, FDR progressives who are seeking far more populist gumption and governmental action than any Democratic congressional leader or presidential contender has dared to imagine. In recent polls by the Pew Research Group, the Opinion Research Corporation, the Wall Street Journal, and CBS News, the American majority has made clear how it feels. Look at how the majority feels about some of the issues that you'd think would be gospel to a real Democratic party:

65 percent say the government should guarantee health insurance for everyone -- even if it means raising taxes.
86 percent favor raising the minimum wage (including 79 percent of selfdescribed "social conservatives").
60 percent favor repealing either all of Bush's tax cuts or at least those cuts that went to the rich.
66 percent would reduce the deficit not by cutting domestic spending but by reducing Pentagon spending or raising taxes.
77 percent believe the country should do "whatever it takes" to protect the environment.
87 percent think big oil corporations are gouging consumers, and 80 percent (including 76 percent of Republicans) would support a windfall profits tax on the oil giants if the revenues went for more research on alternative fuels.
69 percent agree that corporate offshoring of jobs is bad for the U.S. economy (78 percent of "disaffected" voters think this), and only 22% believe offshoring is good because "it keeps costs down."
69 percent believe America is on the wrong track, with only 26 percent saying it's headed in the right direction.

Americans might not call themselves progressive -- but there they are. On the populist, pocketbook issues that are rooted in our nation's core values of fairness and justice, there's a progressive super-majority. It flourishes in red states as well as blue, cutting through the establishment's false dichotomy of liberal/ conservative.

http://www.alternet.org/story/29788/

These poll numbers are not in the least bit surprising
considering that the vast majority of Americans have
not bennifited from the pResidents Tax Plans.
In fact, quite the contrary!

I have several times suggested someone explain the Custer Story to Bush.
Us indians is 'bout ready to get real uppity!

I also feel the Democrats drop the ball when they fail to step up to this plate.
I don't mean the party in general.
I mean any and every Liberal candidate that runs for office.

It's as if the politicians aren't afraid of voter back lash
as much as they fear Republican Back lash!
Makes me wonder just HOW LONG has the Vote been Fixed anyway?






And the more they kick, the better!

Make it so!

Fast fact:

The 44 Democratic members of the Senate represent 55% of the US population.

How many favor abolishing the Privately Owned Federal Reserve and have the Congress issue the nation's money debt and interest free so there would be no need for taxation of the American Populace to pay back the usury to the privately owned Federal Reserve?

Chart of who "owns" the Federal Reserve


History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and its issuance. -James Madison


If congress has the right under the Constitution to issue paper money, it was given them to use themselves, not to be delegated to individuals or corporations. -Andrew Jackson - Founder Democrat Party


The Government [not a privately owned central bank] should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of consumers. By the adoption of these principles, the taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest. Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. -Abraham Lincoln - Founder Republican Party

Need I list the Constitutional Outlawing of "Bills of Credit" which is what "federal" "reserve" "notes" are?

This is a great post,
but should have been the first post of a new subject on a new string.

Yeah, make it a poll!

Yeah, the bankers of the Fed have quite a deal don't they. I did some research on how the whole thing works many years ago. I'm no economist and it was very confusing. But, it seemed to me that they kind of get free money from the Treasury, which they sort of loan back to the government.

Sweet deal, eh?