It's time for this destructive meme about shutting up during elections to stop,

[A Simple Game]

59. I don't really believe this forum helps Democrats get elected,

it doesn't hurt them, but it really is just a feel good forum for the most part. I get the impression that this is a large part of many of the DU posters world but in the reality of the world, it is small and mostly insignificant. That said, I do think the Democratic, and probably the Republican parties do monitor it for how the public is trending.

So if everyone just accepts "some health care is better than no health care" and "we really need to fix Social Security" how do we expect the Democrats to react? President Obama is known as a compromiser and has already hinted at making cuts to SS and we can forget about single payer health care.

There is no doubt in my mind that President Obama is a far better candidate than Romney, but keeping your mouth shut rarely helps you in the long run. Saying you want something better, or just different, than what is offered will not hurt or help either candidate.