Paul Street: The US is a Center-Left Country; Why is its politics FrankenRight?

Paul Street writes that The US is a Center-Left Country; Why is its politics FrankenRight?.

Progressives must not let Sanders’ inevitable defeat fuel the illusion that progressive, social-democratic policies lack majority support in the U.S. They should remind their fellow Americans that candidate-centered politics is not the sum total of all the politics that matters. There’s also the more imperative job of building a great grassroots social movement to organize mass worker and citizen action beneath and beyond the quadrennial electoral extravaganzas, whatever their outcomes.

Such a movement should include in its list of demands the call for an electoral system that honors the longstanding majority’S view that two big business and empire parties are simply not enough to capture to the actual spectrum of public opinion. That would be an elections and party system that is truly worthy of passionate citizen engagement.

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Street is correct to remind people that politics is not just elections—it is an integral part of daily life.