It is okay now to be an Angry Passionate representative democrat. What turned off our base pre-bush is just the kind of fire we all want to see in our reps for the last three years.
This means: all of your representatives who have staff informing you not to cross boundaries in terms of your passion: fire your staff. We want passion; we want issues; we want filibusters; we want oversight; we want ever trick in the book to stop corruption.
We want disclosure of how the fat Elephants use military contracts to get their party donations.
We want angry speeches about our country being a dictatorship.
flip (splash!)
We want action NOW about domestic spying.
We want action and policy NOW about European Prisons and interrogation policy.
We want furious passion concerning our environmental policy and our crooked Oil-Administration.
Believe it or not our base has grown larger and more homogenous in the last 5 years. We want simple things; a return to democratic representation. We want the death of corporate influence on politics. We want dramatic anti-global warming policy. We want REAL alternatives to oil consuming transportation.
Here's what you do. Get your staff to write up 10 new pieces of legislation. Address the issues above; schedule a five hour press conference and present all of your ideas passionately.
But you are afraid to scare away your constituents: so find some organizations that will gain from your legislation. Make environmental groups a center of the democratic fundraising machine(DFM). Make Alternative fuel organizations part of the DFM. Make health care and insurance a center of the DFM.
Come on; represent us. We are fed up. We are intelligent. We know you don't have the backing of the media. We know some of you might not survive. We don't care about you not surviving. We care about our form of government surviving. We care about our communities surviving. We care about the world surviving. Enough is enough.
Represent!!!!!
(this is an open thread)