There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success.
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- The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
- There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success.
- The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.
- Populism is not a style, it's a people's rebellion against the iron grip that big corporations have on our country - including our economy, government, media, and environment.
- This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption.