"Ours" means a membership association of progressives like DailyKos, with its 200,000+ registered users, a community further augmented through members trading with green non-member local businesses. "Theirs" means the plutonomy.
We need a progressive credit union, so we can lend to our own community, earn interest for our own community, and invest in our own community. Why would anyone choose Citicorp (especially after Michael's Moore's movie) if they could have a credit union that pays the same interest rates, has transparent management, member ownership, and a progressive vision?
Sometimes we think the only voice we have is our vote. Natural enough with political junkies. Our vote has been hijacked, though. While working to get it back, we can't forget our other important voice, our wallet. True, must of us aren't wealthy. But acting together, I think we are big enough now to have a real impact, and it's if done right, we will only get bigger and stronger. If our current efforts at reform fail, we need a Plan B, instead of reinventing Plan A to fail again and again.
We need to think about opting out of the plutonomy to form our own economy.
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