Just after the 2006 elections, many of us felt positive and hopeful about the effect of the liberal blogosphere, and DailyKos in particular. Though we were a small player, we felt we might become an important one, a David able to occasionally slow down a few Goliaths. Then, as the year rolled on, observing the timidity of the Democrats supposedly elected on a mandate to stop the Iraq war, optimism became doubt, then disappointment, then anger, and finally frustrated rage. We no longer feel that we are making an impact, that anyone is listening, and we've begun to confirm this fear by inventing strawman squabbles between ourselves, browbeating each other on how we should think and feel. In our desperation and fear of what the future may bring, civility has declined, and kossacks are TRing each other right and left over petty disagreements.
I'd like to remind us all to take a deep breath and invoke the spirit of cooperation, flexibility and positive thinking that is required for any large or small enterprise to work. Here we are, trying to revive the free and democratic system of government for an entire nation, and that just for starters...we have so much work to do to make the world a better place. How could we imagine it would be easy?
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