If you give in before you fight, you always lose. We can beat this Congress. Stop giving in to them

[grahamhgreen]

by arguing that "we can't get it past this Congress".

It's a loser mentality that I see all over this board.

You want to win? Pick a popular position and fight for it. Get your message out to the American people. Let them know what bills you are pushing.

[valerief]

1. How do we beat SCOTUS? nt

[grahamhgreen]

2. Hobby Lobby? Medicare buy in.

[valerief]

3. SCOTUS. They make the rulings paid for by the women-haters. nt

[randome]

7. Congress still trumps SCOTUS with the right laws.

"Closely held corporation", my ass! A law that specifically short-circuits that reasoning would win out. That's why it's back to Congress to right this wrong.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]A ton of bricks, a ton of feathers, it's still gonna hurt.[/center][/font][hr]

[valerief]

9. We have NO CONGRESS. Zip. Nada. None. NO CONGRESS. nt

[Politicalboi]

4. Reality is tough sometimes

We need to get people to VOTE these assholes OUT of congress in 4 months. I'm tired of hearing we already lost 2014. With ALL this craziness, how can we lose.

[Scuba]

10. We'll lose 'cause we've offerered no alternative that makes clear why voters should vote Dem.

When was the last time you heard POTUS, or Harry Reid, or Nancy Pelosi or Hillary Clinton trumpeting the Congressional Progressive Caucus Budget?

http://cpc.grijalva.house.gov/back-to-work-budget/

[MannyGoldstein]

5. +1000 nt

[jeff47]

6. You do realize they didn't really save Tinkerbell by clapping, right?

This:

You want to win? Pick a popular position and fight for it. Get your message out to the American people. Let them know what bills you are pushing.

is like saying you can save Tinkerbell by clapping louder.

Changing the course of the country takes quite a while. It took conservatives 50 years to get us to this point. That can not be reversed in 6 years.

So yes, fight for change. But you must be aware that you are in for a long fight, and you will have setbacks along the way.

The most important things we can do are:
1) Show up for primary elections. We utterly fail at this.
2) Start recruiting/helping/encouraging people to run for local office.

Those people in local office become the pool of candidates for statewide office. Who then become the pool for federal office. And so on.

[grahamhgreen]

8. Right. And we can't win this by not fighting.