May 4, 2012     Permalink politics Submitted by Michael Dewey

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I'm Dumping the Democratic Party, Personally: .ly/J2wbqV

I'm pulling way back from the level of activism I engaged in during the 2008 election cycle. Recent conversations with some of the political thinkers I respect most-- editors on Opednews, Chris Hedges, Kevin Zeese, Margaret Flowers, David Swanson, to name a few, have shown that we're all on the same page-- standard electoral politics-- focusing on congress and the Whitehouse-- is not going to change much of anything. Those people, in both parties, are bought and paid for by corporations. We need to put our efforts elsewhere-- OWS, local politics, local community building. And totally forget about Moveon and Van Jones associated projects. They are subterfuges to get you to support Obama and corporocrats.