Reply #13: there are two very good things about that

[Two Americas]

First, the people resisting the Left are a small minority of the activists, which is a small percentage of the people. The tail wags the dog - a few can dominate the entire discussion. We have the numbers, by a very wide margin.

Secondly, it is a battle of words and ideas. That means that it is a battle we could win - we have everything we need to win that battle. We are competing for the attention of the people with the obstructionists and conservatives within the party. They are winning right now, because they identify with those in power and then tell us that our task is hopeless. So we give up, and stop thinking and fighting them, because we think that it is a battle of money, or media access, or havo9ng friends in high places as they do, or power or something.

"The pen is mightier than the sword." The conservatives among us know that, although they will never admit that. They out a tremendous amount of effort into creating confusion so that people cannot hear us, or scaring people so they do not listen to us, or engaging in character assassination to discredit us so that people do not trust us.