OK, so I've made a decision. I'm attending my County Democratic Party Executive Committee meeting on the 15th and getting my hands dirty. Not volunteering, not "Organizing," though both of those are valuable things; I want to set the agenda. It's time for everyone who's pissed off about last night to start pushing back HARD from the Left, and doing it where it matters, on the local level, in person, in the Party structure itself.
This is probably not a new idea for some of us, and if you're already doing it, great. Thank you! But if you're not, and you're physically able to, then you MUST. We have to get a handle on things, we have to create a Party that actually represents the people. The #1 reason I heard that people weren't voting this year was that "there's no difference between the parties." The Blue Dogs got slaughtered, because in their cases, there was not. It's time to SHOW your community what the difference is.
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