...that it's going to get worse. WAY worse, unless both we and the Dems in DC WAKE UP.
When Dems lose, they tack right. HARD right, until they bump into a wall, or the wall falls away from them. That's what happened in 2006 and 2008, the wall fell away and the Dems marched through the hole.
Be it all as it may, Obama said a LOT of things during the campaign that have not come to pass. No public option. Escalation in Afghanistan. DADT and DOMA are still on the law books. Tim Geithner in Treasury. Tim Kaine in the DNC. Bending over backwards for "bipartisanship" after a campaign designed for "change."
Remember "change?"
Well change is the biggest casualty tonight. 'Cuz ain't nothin' gonna change unless we at KOS do something about it.
We need to ORGANIZE and we need to do so NOW! There is a movement in this country that is being funded by powers that be and it is underwriting the teafreaks.
It is IMPOSSIBLE to fight something with nothing. And that's what we have right now. Nuthin.
There is NO Democratic message
There is NO Democratic framing of the issues
There is NO Democratic engagement with the people
The Dems in DC have closed themselves into a bubble and have LOST TOUCH with the rest of us out here. They asked for our help, and we delivered. We gave them EVERYTHING they could possibly want. The presidency, an overwhelming majority in the House, and as close to 60 senators as was humanly possible.
AND THEY HAVE SQUANDERED THAT.
Back room deals with big Pharma and the unions, and lord only knows who else.
Keystone Kop antics in the Senate.
No accountability for the Bush administration.
But then how can you pretend to hold someone accountable if you continue so many of the same policies...?
Nothing is going to change unless WE get up off our fannies, step back from our keyboards and ORGANIZE.
America NEEDS a PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT. We need a strategy, we need a plan, and we need a message. We need to be in the media's face so much they know us by our first names.
Because the only way this country is going to MOVE LEFT is if there's someone and something to PUSH them there.
Here are a FEW steps to consider:
- We need to come together, not split apart. If we can't unite to prevent what happened in MA to go viral, there will be nothing to stop them.
- We need to start playing nicer together. STOP the flames. STOP discounting what you may not want to hear.
- Whether it be on KOS or someplace else, we need a site to use as a home base.
- We need a COGENT set of objectives, with CLEAR SOUND-BITE savvy reasons for them.
- We need candidates who are willing to work with us.
- We need to start generating FUNDS to do some of the work that needs to be done.
- And ideally, we need to start conferencing, sharing ideas, strategies, and the steps necessary to fight back.
Because the worst of it is that whatever faults Coakley had, whatever may or may not be the political makeup of MA, if we don't FIGHT BACK, what happened in MA will happen from coast to coast.