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YoungDemCA

(5,714 posts)
Fri Jul 4, 2014, 03:33 PM Jul 2014

How about we all come together in this election and defeat the GOP...

...instead of wasting time arguing over who is a "real" Democrat/progressive/liberal, and who is more committed or principled or pragmatic or what have you than the other?



Problem: Republicans are poised to gain in Congress, and the threat of them taking the Senate is very real.

Solution: Vote for Democrats across the board, at all levels of government. Encourage everyone you know to vote Dem, and everyone they know to vote Dem, and so on..., no matter how "red" or "blue" or "purple" your state and/or district is.

Organize. Agitate. Speak out. Stand up. Don't shut up. Vote.

And just to leave you with this:

Why are there ANY Republicans in office, after all that has happened? It's not because the American public is stupid, in the aggregate. We elected Obama twice, after all.

I'm confident that we can do this. No, it won't be easy by any means, but who said it was supposed to be easy?

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How about we all come together in this election and defeat the GOP... (Original Post) YoungDemCA Jul 2014 OP
Yes, lets come together to defeat former Goldwater Girl vt_native Jul 2014 #1
Hello? What is HRC running for in 2014, pray tell? & welcome to DU. MH1 Jul 2014 #8
Voters annihilated the GOP in 2006 and 2008 n/t leftstreet Jul 2014 #2
I don't think we Jamaal510 Jul 2014 #3
Fair enough YoungDemCA Jul 2014 #6
YES WE CAN it will take a big turnout but lets do it 2016 can wait it is this year that matters!!!! awake Jul 2014 #4
i have to say yes! samsingh Jul 2014 #5
I'm in. nt Snotcicles Jul 2014 #7
Debate and working to win are not mutually exclusive Armstead Jul 2014 #9
Problem is: young Dems RobertEarl Jul 2014 #10
Consider this for a minute. What if BOTH Parties are double-teaming all of us? blkmusclmachine Jul 2014 #11
If? Scuba Jul 2014 #14
That is indeed my mission. FarPoint Jul 2014 #12
I am not a big fan of HRC. TNNurse Jul 2014 #13
That is how I see it. FarPoint Jul 2014 #19
debate wasn't what sank Cegelis, Lamont, McKinney, Halter, Romanoff, Sestak, Grayson, Kucinich, MisterP Jul 2014 #15
I'm on it rickyhall Jul 2014 #16
Here Here!!!!! BrainMann1 Jul 2014 #17
Yes ReRe Jul 2014 #18

Jamaal510

(10,893 posts)
3. I don't think we
Fri Jul 4, 2014, 03:39 PM
Jul 2014

have to worry much about many people on DU sitting out an election. Most of the people who don't vote probably have zero interest in politics and aren't on here.

 

RobertEarl

(13,685 posts)
10. Problem is: young Dems
Fri Jul 4, 2014, 04:05 PM
Jul 2014

Some don't vote. Some don't even know how to vote.

Older Dems on this board know how and who to vote for. We have always done at least that. But kids these day.... how do we educate them to vote?

 

blkmusclmachine

(16,149 posts)
11. Consider this for a minute. What if BOTH Parties are double-teaming all of us?
Fri Jul 4, 2014, 05:12 PM
Jul 2014

That would certainly go a ways in explaining the Democrats seemingly never-ending "concern" for all things "bi-partisan" (regardless of whatever term the DEMS use to describe their constant capitulation to the GOP).

FarPoint

(12,495 posts)
12. That is indeed my mission.
Fri Jul 4, 2014, 05:26 PM
Jul 2014

I seek the greater good...I want Madam President Clinton. I realize she is no progressive and I can live with that. A republican... Not so much.

TNNurse

(6,934 posts)
13. I am not a big fan of HRC.
Fri Jul 4, 2014, 06:02 PM
Jul 2014

I assure you however, if she is the candidate in 2016, she will have my vote and my support.

I challenge anyone to provide a Republican for whom you could vote. If you do not support and vote for that Democrat in any election, you might as well be a Republican. Since Republicans have allowed Tea Party idiots to remain in their party, as far as I am concerned they need to be stopped.

FarPoint

(12,495 posts)
19. That is how I see it.
Fri Jul 4, 2014, 06:42 PM
Jul 2014

That said, I will only engage in productive discussion regarding our Democratic Candidates...criticism without malice essentially.

MisterP

(23,730 posts)
15. debate wasn't what sank Cegelis, Lamont, McKinney, Halter, Romanoff, Sestak, Grayson, Kucinich,
Fri Jul 4, 2014, 06:20 PM
Jul 2014

Buono, Rev. Manuel Sykes

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