The biggest bloc of voters in every election is those who don't vote. They are the real majority who control every election. Instead of spending so much time on who will serve in what Party position or on what committee or who is hosting what reception or who is getting recognized for what or by whom or who slighted whom or who endorsed whom, activist Democrats need to leap out of the box of junior high school politics that they get themselves caught in, and learn to speak to the non-voting majority. I am suggesting a subtle yet major paradigm shift. That is, to think of the citizens who who have been choosing not to vote not as non-voters, but as voters who are casting ballots of abstention. Maybe they are telling us something; after all, they are the majority, and we do believe in democracy, don't we? Think about this for a few minutes and let it sink in. It could lead one to challenge many conventional assumptions about political messages and tactics.
David Van Os
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