Democratic Candidates Debate

I'm keeping half an eye on the upcoming presidential election. However, I haven't chosen a candidate, nor have I watched many debates. Last night I happened to catch the debate sponsored by the AFL-CIO. It was actually very riveting because most of the questions were from real working people. An especially poignant question was presented by one gentleman who lost a third of his pension and promised health care for his family when the company he retired from (on a disability) went out of business. If your heart doesn't break when you listen to this, you're less than human.

If we could have more debates with questions/topics like this one, I think more people might pay attention to politics. Of course, I can hear you saying, "The politicians are just full of promises, or don't really answer the questions." Call me Pollyanna, but I think if more people took the trouble to ask these kinds of questions and become participants in the process, we could hold the politicians' feet to the fire and make progress.

Also, contrast the topics the Dems receive with those you the GOoPers cover: how to get rid of immigrants, how to restrict the rights of ordinary (gay) people, how to tell women to manage their own birth control, how to have corporations get richer while workers are tossed aside.

The difference is striking.