See this Rolling Stone piece. It's happening people. Now that we've energized and active in the Sanders campaign we going to build on that to fight for a government truly of the people, for the people and by the people. Some excerpts:
Encouraged by the momentum Sanders' campaign has generated, the young
people heading up some of the last decade's most influential social
movements are grappling with how to build a new kind of politics, as
active in the streets as it is in the halls of power. [...] While millennial organizers may have been excited about a Sanders
administration, many see a bolder goal on the horizon: an alternative to
politics as usual, one that's of, by and for the grassroots. From
backing candidates up and down the ticket to marching on Washington,
activists are looking to create a popular outlet for anger at the status
quo, with electoral teeth."
"'We need a movement party that's decentralized, that many people can
identify with, organizationally and individually.' She likens such a
formation to the Tea Party — not in its Koch Brothers funding or Fox
News cheerleaders, but in the more than 900 local chapters that led a
values-driven transformation of the Republican Party from town halls and
church basements. 'Anyone across the country can identify with the Tea Party. 'The open-source nature of it … that's something our movements
already are. We need to actualize that in a party structure.'"
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