Democracy is not what we hate the most and what we fear the most. We need to stand up.
It's this mingling of the economic and political elite which is really destroying our democracy.
There should be just no end to what we can do when we operate with the courage of our convictions and we get out there in the street, in the voting booth, we assert our power and we take our democracy back.
Democracy cannot function just on who do we fear the most, you know, or who do we hate the most; we need an affirmative agenda.
It's not a matter of just what we don't like and who we are most afraid of. We need an affirmative agenda if we're going to move forward as a democracy.
[The Democracy Party] did it to Dennis Kucinich.They certainly did it to Bernie, as we saw in the e-mails. They did it to Howard Dean, the "Dean Scream." Jesse Jackson, another kind of PR smear campaign.Meanwhile, the party keeps marching to the right and becomes more corporatist and elitist and imperialist.
[Most progressive in the Democratic Party] won't stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership or take a position against it, you know, which is an absolute assault on our democracy.
Democracy needs a moral compass.
Silence is not an effective political strategy, and what we do if we silence the public interest, which is so hard to hear anyway, is that we silence ourselves and then we do not have a democracy.
If we are going to save our hides, we need to start with democracy.
Democracy needs to start with an open Presidential debate. So come on out and let's take back the promise of our democracy.
All the more reason we need to stand up for our democracy now. If we're going to solve the crises that are barreling down on us, we need democracy, and our democracy needs to start with an open and inclusive debate. That doesn't mean 20 candidates. There are four candidates who are on the ballot for just about every voter in America.
We have a First Amendment for good reasons. We need a free press because without an educated electorate we cannot have a functioning democracy.
