I was just reading brooklynboy's thoughtful and impressive diary on Rebuilding the Democratic Party. I kept looking for the map on how we do this. I read through the comments but they then got way off base on his original diary and just multipled quickly. I want to know How Do We Rebuild?
I'm as discouraged and frustrated as most of you. The 2010 mid-term elections should be a wake-up call to the Democrats but I don't see that happening. We lost really good people, like Alan Grayson and Russ Feingold. So many of us agree something must be done to save the Democratic Party from its lurch towards the right of center.
My own belief is that real progress won't be made until we have solid campaign finance reform. But with Citizens United, reform is even further away than just last year. Money usually trumps all. But people can also trump money. It has to if we want any change.
I'll admit right away I don't know how we can do it. I started my own feeble attempt at doing something by crediting
www.johnboehnerwheresmyjob.com and have a petition for people to sign. I did write a diary last week but it fell off the front page quickly and to date only 37 people signed. So I know it's hard to get people's attention and for us to make change.
This diary is really a plea to someone on Daily Kos who is able to write up something concrete we can follow as a blueprint. The action plan was GOTV before the elections and that was done. But now we need a new plan to restructure the party. But How? I've see many diaries about we need change, that this is wrong, this doesn't work. But did I miss the one that has a map for us? We have so many intelligent and educated people here, can we get together and put something in writing for each of us to get a sense of what we can do?
Am I being naive? Is the party too involved with corporate money now and power hungry people that the rest of us can't do anything? We need to get our majorities back in 2012.
I'm willing to help, donate time, but quite frankly, I don't know what to do? Anyone have ideas? Please let us know. Thanks!