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AmBlue

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21. We are failing because....
Mon Aug 31, 2020, 03:30 PM
Aug 2020

Last edited Mon Aug 31, 2020, 05:12 PM - Edit history (1)

...the missing ingredient is US. Democracy, as imagined in our Constitution, is PARTICIPATORY, but Americans in great numbers are naive, gullible, and don't vote like their LIVES depend on it. Every. Single. Time. We take for granted living in a free democracy because we've never known anything else. We just assume it will always be there, like the air we breathe. Most notably, Americans have no experience in history equivalent to this dangerous time we are living in.

We need to be making phone calls to voters, knocking on doors, writing postcards to voters, helping people to vote, making as much noise on social networks as we can, and, in the words of John Lewis, making "good trouble."

Do we have on DU somewhere a list of worthy efforts, besides the Biden campaign of course, like Moveon.org, Indivisible.org, that we can get involved with?

There is much work to do and EVERYTHING matters.

"America is Dying." [View all] AmBlue Aug 2020 OP
K&R for visibility. secondwind Aug 2020 #1
GMTA, lol Celerity Aug 2020 #3
K & R for visibility Celerity Aug 2020 #2
I don't have the experience they have, but I absolutely agree with what they're saying. Jim__ Aug 2020 #4
+1 Most dangerous time since the Civil War as one noted appalachiablue Aug 2020 #13
I wish warnings like this were just "blowin' smoke"... calimary Aug 2020 #5
Indeed. AmBlue Aug 2020 #6
Well... OldBaldy1701E Aug 2020 #8
even on this very forum, majority are blinded by optimism citing polling AlexSFCA Aug 2020 #7
Unfortunately, the WH always hides behind the veil of "SECRECY" ... aggiesal Aug 2020 #9
Forgive me... OldBaldy1701E Aug 2020 #10
So DownriverDem Aug 2020 #16
that's what I'd like to hear from people smarter than I am AlexSFCA Aug 2020 #20
We are failing because.... AmBlue Aug 2020 #21
We have experience... OldBaldy1701E Sep 2020 #24
Okay... OldBaldy1701E Sep 2020 #23
K & R mountain grammy Aug 2020 #11
K & R LiberalLovinLug Aug 2020 #12
Read this. matt819 Aug 2020 #14
YES!!! AND SHARE EVERYWHERE PLEASE AmBlue Aug 2020 #17
Entire piece excellent - MUST READ! cp Aug 2020 #15
finally, this, big time llashram Aug 2020 #18
America is dying in almost every category Roc2020 Aug 2020 #19
we are the end, not the beginning of the end, of our democracy AlexSFCA Aug 2020 #22
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