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In reply to the discussion: We can't afford any more of Obama's Grand Bargains. [View all]struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)start pushing local government officials you like into state government, and start pushing state government officials you like into federal government. It's a long-term project, and it will require regular devotion of many hours of your time to door-knocking and phone-calling
You want a public better attuned to the issues that concern you? Then start educating people with teach-ins and street-work and other outreach. That's a long-term project, too, and it will require regular devotion of many hours of your time to educate yourself, not only about what the issues are but also about what the locals think the issues are and then about how to convince other people to think about the issues the way you do
You really want to win some of these fights? Then don't go it alone: start building organization to win. And that's yet a long-term project that it will require regular devotion of many hours of your time to educate yourself, to get people interested in, and involved with, community issues and labor issues so they can direct organizational strength at political campaigns and legislative fights and regulatory struggles
You want to whine without having much effect on anybody except getting them depressed and unmotivated? Then just bitch about the President without showing anybody how to get involved effectively