Reply #35: Why are you so patient?

[ozone_man]

"Toleration is not the opposite of intolerance but the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms: the one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, the other of granting it." - Thomas Paine

If we don't speak up, then our silence is an endorsement of the status quo. We need to elect Democrats that are real Democrats, which we do through grass roots activism. Both of my senators voted against his confirmation, but they are in the "Democratic wing" of the party.