Reply #11: We should be organizing for a multiyear political fight against ...

[struggle4progress]

... Republican extremists, instead of p*ssing on John Kerry and other nominal leaders.

Time is short: when the new Congress is seated, we will see an unprecedented attempt to roll back the nation to the grafty standards of the Gilded Era. Expect an assault on the New Deal, an ongoing effort to end environmental protection, the packing of courts with rightwing extremists, and a new military push.

We cannot count on the media to get our story out, and it certainly will not help us to organize, one person at a time, for the next political phase. Nor can we expect the Congressional Democrats to stand up without being constantly pushed to do so: the history of Congressional Democrats since the early 1980's has largely been one of accomodation with conservative extremists, especially so since the disaster of 1994.

This offers real challenges, which we must begin to address.