There’s a lot of blame being thrown around today about the WI Supreme Court election. Was it the Bernie supporters? Was it the Clinton supporters? Was it the old people? Was it the young people? Who’s fault was it so we all know who to be mad at!
I’ll tell you who we blame. How about a website dedicated to electing more and better democrats? How about the people who write and blog and read and recommend diaries on that website? How about people who have made it their mission to get the word out about liberal causes and liberal politicians.
How about the people who didn’t seem to care about this until after they could use it as a pie to throw back and forth in their precious primary fight? How about we blame ourselves for not giving a fuck about a race that mattered until it was too damn late? This shit makes the front page after it doesn’t matter. It gets a post from kos himself after it’s over.
I want to thank liveatleeds as his diary is calling for sanity and pointing out that it’s probably just a function of more R’s than D’s showing up to vote that night. Still, most people didn’t vote on these candidates because most people aren’t informed. That’s supposed to be the mission of a site like this one.
So, from now on, when there’s an important down ticket race, I want to hear about it (I actually do remember reading about this one on the 4th but you get my point). I want it on the front page. I want to see hundreds of recommends. I want to see people talking about electing more and better democrats. We can all pie fight when nothing else is going on but let’s not miss these things people. Unless you are one of those who posted/commented/recommended/voted on this race before it was over, repeat after me, “I can do better.”
Ps. Yes I know there are more diaries tagged about her opponent. Those are all well and good but if you’re not tagging the dem in your diary then you’re not doing your duty.