I’ve also read Kos’s cathartic purge from November 30th, “Yes, I’m angry . . .” www.dailykos.com/...
and Stormkrow’s clarion blog piece, “It’s time for all out War . . .” www.dailykos.com/...
and I have a bit more to add to these thoughts as we develop a strategy to fight back.
There are at least two other things we must do here on Daily Kos and elsewhere:
(1) Profile and promote young, progressive candidates at every government level on this website. We need a portion of the Daily Kos website devoted to this. We must take back the statehouses. And we must start now.
(2) Demand that the press be more vigilant investigators and defenders of truth. We can condemn the lower/middle class, blue-collar workers all we want. But, they have legitimate concerns. The real problem is that they are overly influenced by sources of misinformation — misinformation that skews their view of the world — especially their view of the progressive agenda. We have witnessed the fact-free environment that permeates Fox News and which even contaminates other parts of the media (including its crippling penchant for false equivalencies — for example, Hillary’s emails vs. Trump’s outright racism). We must demand (and provide) a countervailing voice that is loud enough to neutralize the Hannitys and O’Reillys of the media. We have allowed the right to set the agenda and dominate the conversation for too long.