Reply #66: advocating passivity

[marions ghost]

probably isn't going to get you anywhere. Nobody cares about a non-voter's opinion in a nation of winner-take-all elections.

The Dem party is not listening to threats of non-support because we Leftwingers don't have enough clout. We should, in a fairer system, but we don't. We can't apply any leverage. It was all we could do to get Obama elected, and there were many miracles along the way in doing that. Whoever thought the Rethugs weren't going to come back with pistols blazing doesn't understand Rethuggery. Or the weak Dems who help them.

It is hard to keep fighting when you feel you never really win, that the deck is always stacked against you. Some of us have been fighting for a long time and are understandably tired. But I take heart that STILL we are on the right side of history. We must continue to criticize, to speak truth, to bear witness. Even though we may feel powerless, we have a responsibility to EACH OTHER, and to anyone who comes here, to be a safe haven for the discussion of what is real, and for the projection of what is possible.

Brick by brick.