Whenever somebody says - "oh but but but we can't do that... it makes us just like them!!!!" I simply say - "got news for you: I WANT to be just like them. Because they WIN."

You cannot govern unless you win.

You cannot set the agenda unless you win.

You cannot use the bully pulpit unless you win.

You cannot lead the way unless you WIN.

Sucks, but that's the way it is.

I've been saying for a long time now - where are OUR kkkarl roves? Where are OUR thinkers who devise these strategies that starve the opponents, corner them, prevent them from being able to compete, keep them from getting their message out (because YOU own all the broadcast and cable and radio network outlets that count) and brainwash the public.

In war, you cut the enemy's lines of communication. Then you cut their supply lines. Then you sit back and watch them shrivel into nothing while you run the table unopposed.

Some of us were saying this 30 years ago when ralph reed and his fucking "Christian Coalition" was urging operatives and partisans to get in at the local level. Take over the school board. Run for alderman. Run for county council. And then start building once you're in, and you can start working your way up with a gradually increasing power base. And by the time you've been able to reach into your state Senate or maybe Congress or the US Senate or lieutenant governorship - OR better yet, your state's Secretary of State (which supervises all the voting), it's too late to stop you, and your opponents won't even start noticing til you've taken over the governorship and majorities in both houses in the state legislature. Or you're the major of the city. Or some other figure with clout.

And meanwhile, our naifs were all saying - "but, but, but ... the people will SEE! The people will KNOW! They'll SEE what the other side is trying to do to them and they'll get active and vote! The people will SEE!"

Sadly, NO THEY WON'T!!!!! Not when they've been brainwashed by a deliberate long-term strategy of taking over the media, starting with the deregulation of ownership and broadcast license requirements and obligation to the public trust in the community supposedly being served.

The people WILL NOT see. To believe otherwise is just to be fucking NAIVE. And not in touch with anything remotely resembling reality. The people will NOT see.

NOT as long as rush limbaugh isn't stopped.

NOT as long as Pox Noise is allowed to flourish.

NOT as long as outfits like the Daily Caller and Newsmax and the Drudge Report and breitbart.com and all the rest of those hacks and viper pits are allowed to continue, virtually unopposed.

It really pisses me off. WHERE were OUR wealthy people when all those radio stations were being gobbled up by the Mays family (ClearChannel) and rupert murdoch and so forth? Where was OUR ClearChannel or Premiere Radio Networks, instead of that embarrassing, anemic, nearly stillborn Air America? How many stations did we wind up with there? Sixty? Wow. Pretty humiliating considering limbaugh and that-guy-whose-name-rhymes-with-VANITY have 400 - 600.

Just infuriating.

So how will our country look when a few Goliaths wind up owning everything and there are no Davids as far as the eye can see?

we just need to fully use our advantages when we do win and not shrink from imposing liberal and progressive policies that favor us, not Republicans. You give them an inch and they use it against us. We can't do that anymore.

And get the truth to the voters, then make sure the repugs don't steal it.

It's high time we started playing by their rules.

They picked this fight, so the only way we can win is to beat them at their own game.

meow2u3 to Democrats: it's time to say, "No more Mr. Nice Guy/Madam Nice Gal. If you repukes want to hit below the belt, two can play that game."

I agree...we need to lie, cheat and do anything else to win as long as we don't get caught..when we do get caught, lie and obstruct...that's how the repukes are dloing it...we'll never get anywhere unless we do.

i merely meant when we have them outnumbered on any vote to pass bills that will favors our policies and party and take advantages away from repubs.

When all we have is dirt.. and they have mounds of cash.

Sorry to break it to ya, that ship has pretty much sailed. They already hold the cards -- no, fuck that, they own the deck and the table and the roof under which the game is played. It's going to take a long time and a couple of big miracles to undo what's going to happen in the next 30 years.

I'm tired of us always taking the high road.

We need to fight dirty or we lose.

and to hit back at the bastards.
They would put all of us in prison if they could and in time if things continue that is what will happen to us.

The middle of the road voters will decide a change could not hurt and mittens gets elected.

President Obama needs to convince those voters it will take more time.

because they control the public's perception of the economy. If a democrat is in office of course they are going to try and slow down the economy, stop hiring, not cooperate, etc so it looks like democrat president is doing a bad job. That's why they resist government regulation because more government control over corporations and business means they have less control over the public perception of the economy. We need to look to Europe and ask how a more socialized system prevailed over there.

People can be bought or threatened but goals endure.

For example, it wasn't called the "MLK Jr. Movement" so it didn't have to answer for his human qualities and it didn't die with him. The goal was the name: Civil Rights Movement. And more recently: Occupy Wall Street and (dare I mention) Taxed Enough Already.

Good tune by Metallica