What drives politicians above all else? Re-election
Especially in times of uncertainty such as these, politicians furiously hunt for a single thread
The Will Of The People
For even in these times of K street and Halliburton...votes STILL are worth more than money. Though of course in our fucked up system many equate them as one and the same. Just ask Joe.
When advisors and politicians and pundits, both LW and RW read here, they do not read for our policy suggestions...or our critiques of Bushco...or even to see Pony pictures.
They read us and monitor us and look over their shoulder to see what we are saying and doing for one main reason
We ARE the will of The People
We The People
They don't read the comments much...or many diaries, even. They are hear to capture the tone and the issues that matter to The People, the mood.
In these times of uncertainty the Will of The People is both highly prized and desperately elusive to them.
When Delaware Dem says SYFPH, what he means (whether he knows it or not, cause its a REALLY dumb way to go about it) is to present a unified voice of the Will of The People. Presumably so it will be stronger and listened to. This makes the Will of the People more clear and powerful. All well and good. Good advice and spot on.
(Despite the methods he suggests for enforcement, which are, frankly, ludicrous)
But, my fellow Kossaks, what is the MESSAGE of that unified voice? What are we calling out for? what are we trying to express?
Since Markos started and nursed this site, and we have all in our own ways worked hard and contributed our energy to it, it has become the leading voice of the LW, outside of the ProPundit class. I propose that we have incurred, through this hard won popularity, a responsibility.
A responsibility to try to reflect accurately The Will Of The People
By doing this we help the Dems win, by informing them.
By informing them in a strong unified voice, we influence them.
When We YELL LOUDER AND with a unified voice.....we can lead them.
When The People lead, the leaders will follow
Especially in these troubled and complex times, when the leaders are overwhelmed and snowed under by roveshit....
WE need to tell them where we want to be led . Where THE PEOPLE want to be led to.
We and the Dems know what the mood of the country is, everyone does.....
MAKE IT STOP
CHANGE IT
ALL of it
IMHO, that is what our function is, to make enough noise, strongly enough, to give our Democratic representatives that clear message from The People.
So that then they know without question that this IS Our Will
And they can take the strength of our Will, and the strength of our Voice into battle with them.
It Is Up To Us now, lets all step up to the plate between now and November and LEAD the Democrats to Victory