I've heard it said a lot, and you have, too. So much so that links are unnecessary:
I'm tired of voting out of fear.
I'm tired of being kicked in the teeth by the president I worked my ass off to elect.
I'm tired of this sick game of appeasement under the guise of "bipartisanship." I've had enough of what are, no mincing words, Republican policies being pushed down my throat by a president I elected to turn things around. And I'm sick of the bogeymen that is Michele Bachmann, or a world without the ACA, or an unhinged Wall Street being waved around if I complain.
But the sad truth is, I am scared. The prospect of a Romney plutocracy or a Bachmann era terrifies me; with a Dem in the White House, at least I can pretend I'm listened to, and at least there's a semblance of cooperation between the Democratic Congress and the executive branch. As much as it has its flaws from going through our corporacratic legislature, the ACA is a good start, and Dodd-Frank isn't bad, either. But living in a swing state, a protest vote is out of the question; I've got cold feet just considering not knocking doors. I want to avoid Republican leadership at all costs--but frankly, he's not Mitt Romney is a really shitty campaign slogan.
So what can we do, proles? We've shown we're pissed off. If you're like me, you've probably signed every petition moveon.org and the PCCC has sent into your inbox--unless you've stopped seeing the use in it, which I from time to time do.
So how do we grab this administration by the shoulders and shout in its face, "Enough is enough?" How do we reclaim our mandate?