Reply #37: Agree, with what you said on your show and most of the folks on this [View All]

thread. I am a Precinct Captain and the only people who worked their butts off and made a difference where I am are former Dean, Kucinich and even a few former Nader supporters. We were the driving force behind peace marches, behind updating the outdated voter records and local party machinery.

And, yet it's been a fight with the party insiders all the way. And, I've heard most of what you said...plus that we have to stay to the middle and not be disruptive, not question the voting or the way the Board of Elections handled the Early Vote with long lines that turned away many Democrats. And, yet we have a Democratic Governor...but the machinery that runs the Dem party is to some of us "Repug Lite."

I feel the party insiders have used us, yet don't take us seriously and we had to fight to hard for even the small changes we were able to make.
We have a Progressive Wing of the party forming. Some of the people involved though appear to be as unwilling to support innovation as the mainstream Dems but there's really no alternative for us "Activists" except to leave the party altogether.

I'm supposed to attend fundraisers for the party in the Spring. I do not want to give a penny to the Democratic Party. They had four years to get their act together and we end up with lost seats in the House and Senate, another stolen election, media that's in such lock down that I've never seen anything like it (and I was around during Nixon) and we have Donna Brazille, Harry Reid, and Joe Biden to look forward to as our spokespersons. I really don't understand it and working within the party I am dumbfounded as to how they think we can survive acting like losers with no spine.

I can only think that it's the lobbyists and big donors who have caused this...and we were supposed to be the grunts who did all the work for them. :shrug: There's no way I would support Kerry in 2008. I have hope that this "Strategy" that's he's behind the scenes working to get the vote recounted is true. But, we heard to often that Daschle had a strategy, and his "strategy" turned out to be losing seats in the Mid-terms,losing seats in this election and in fact losing his own Senate seat in the end. What kind of Campaign Ops would call that a "success" and point that as the way the party should go in the future?

Thank you for trying on your show to get the points accross. If they hear it enough maybe it will sink in eventually that they have a BIG problem. It's going to take alot of work, and many will probably go third party or give up in disgust if some changes aren't made soon at the top level.