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Hekate

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11. It's terrific you say you are an activist & I appreciate that. So what are you doing? What do you recommend ...
Sat Feb 15, 2025, 01:37 PM
Feb 2025

…the rest of us do to be activists?

As for members of Congress, seems to me our Dems have been pretty vocal. They’ve rallied outside federal buildings that Muskrat has invaded with his teen tech army — and our Dems have been refused admittance.

If you think speaking in Congress doesn’t have a big enough audience — well, there are certainly some regulars over on MSNBC with plenty to say about the situation, and you could tune in when they’re on. My Senator makes himself available there, and he was very involved in the impeachment and the insurrection investigation when he was in the House. My Congressman has been doing electronic town halls — two that I know of already and trump hasn’t been in office a whole month yet.

Neither my Senator nor my Congressman is what you’d call a super-exciting speaker, but they are both intelligent and hard-working as hell. Not everybody can be AOC in front of a crowd.

Not sure what you want them to do that’s not “boring. “ Thanks to the so-called will of the people, the Dems are in the minority, or as one DU OP put it, the American people neutered them.

I’m all ears for your ideas.

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The game shifted, the techno fascists are in charge JCMach1 Feb 2025 #1
+1 leftstreet Feb 2025 #12
The Repubs have sold their souls, so there's no use "working with" them. mymomwasright Feb 2025 #2
Seems to me they are totally flummoxed by it all and fiddling while Rome burns. Where are the leaders? I mean ratchiweenie Feb 2025 #3
Democrats are behind. While Trump turns the country upside-down, issuing his nonsensical edicts, Midnight Writer Feb 2025 #4
I fear that too many of them flvegan Feb 2025 #5
Classic quote DeepWinter Feb 2025 #6
Not a single one tried to use their oath of office or military oath as leverage to declare the orange convict Hotler Feb 2025 #7
Not sure what they can/should do, but Schumer reading a boring statement in an empty Senate Chamber ain't it. Silent Type Feb 2025 #8
And after all that cheerleading for them. Very disappointing. jalan48 Feb 2025 #9
Whatever they are trying, it's ineffective newdeal2 Feb 2025 #10
It's terrific you say you are an activist & I appreciate that. So what are you doing? What do you recommend ... Hekate Feb 2025 #11
Activist, not politician, and I don't mind describing myself that way. lees1975 Feb 2025 #16
I so agree with you and Schumer is getting on my last frazzled nerve. n/t SheilaAnn Feb 2025 #13
I feel the same way. yellow dahlia Feb 2025 #21
I agree with you. I have commented on this topic often. yellow dahlia Feb 2025 #14
So, did you mean to put only male Democrats as effective communicators? Bettie Feb 2025 #18
No. yellow dahlia Feb 2025 #19
I see platitudes suggesting we do "more" but no meaningful suggestions about what that means. tritsofme Feb 2025 #15
I think we're doing plenty. But we need to light a fire under some leaders to get them to break out the message, lees1975 Feb 2025 #17
I blame the media more than Democratic Party Leaders Thrill Feb 2025 #20
Yes, I agree senseandsensibility Feb 2025 #22
I'm Not, Either! Daleuhlmann Feb 2025 #23
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