Reply #79: great post!

[dreamnightwind]

I agree with nearly every word you said, keep saying it over and over, as we all need to.

A couple of places where I slightly differ:

Don't blame the left. The only thing we've done wrong was to support Obama in the first place, and many of us (myself included) only supported him after our preferred candidates (Kucinich, Dean (though not a candidate) were mine) were no longer options. Also the left is being dumped on by every human in the country, we get absolutely no support anywhere, so we need to have each other's backs rather than eating our own.

The other thing, which I suspect you agree with too: Obama and our Dems in power are not dumb, they're owned corporatists or they've resigned themselves to doing whatever little good is possible given the existing screwed up context they operate in. Mostly I don't think it's any lack of smarts or political savvy, it's worse.

I agree we need to clean our own house and reclaim this party, that's the bottom line. I like my reps for the most part (Senator Boxer is pretty good, as is Rep. Woolsey and Gov. Brown. Senator Feinstein is a DINO and should go), and don't want a scorched earth policy against incumbents, we should be analytical and use strategy to get the most progressive, last corporate, congress and POTUS possible.

Anyway as I said excellent post you made.