Reply #15: It's bigger than one election

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The Republicans spent 30 years building and seizing levers of power. Think tanks paying and supplying pundits, having allies buy media outlets or starting them; building the whole echo chamber network, paying off media, pushing memes, developing scripts and systems for vote fraud, partisan appointments to civil service jobs from the Department of Justice to the FCC to the Supreme Court. Simultaneously, they've been dismantling progressive power sources, like unions and pubic education (in that a good history and civics education favors Dems). We can't just do better at the same one-year tactics as them and hope to win. We have to win by building our own power levers. Obama's grassroots organization is one piece, the internet is another. Maybe, with luck and a favorable environment and excellent execution, these will be enough this one time, but we're still at a huge structural disadvantage. Dem leaders other than Dean and Obama have done very little to reverse these trends.