Reply #266: How many progressives have the Greens elected to Congress?

[Radical Activist]

How many progressive Democrats are in Congress?

Yeah, it's not hard to see which strategy is more effective assuming you want to pursue an electoral strategy. And 9/11 finally refuted the idiocy of believing it doesn't matter who we elect to office. Of course Democrats aren't going to push for everything I want. But we could at least have a Democrat who won't exploit a crisis to kill millions of people like Bush did. Who was in the White House made a huge difference on 9/11.

Even comparing the energy policies of Carter and Reagan makes it obvious why we have to make an effort. We were set back 30 years by Reagan and we don't know how many communities will be destroyed or how many people will die as a result from climate disasters because we didn't take action soon enough.

Ideological bullshit doesn't mean much to me when we're talking about the lives of millions of people. I know I'd rather organize with Obama as President than under someone like Bush or Nixon who used the powers of the FBI and CIA against us. It creates a better opportunity to grow the movement. Do you really think the presence of an aggressive program like COINTELPRO doesn't make a difference to the movement's ability to organize? That alone was worth getting Obama in the White House.

Letting millions of people die because you were too self-righteous to help get a sympathetic Democrat elected isn't radical. It's just fucking stupid.