For any DU'ers who even occasionally doubt that Democrats are doing enough -- Democrats are doing enough.

[Trueblue Texan]

49. I'm not flaming...

...but our leadership HAS told us we need to act locally, that we need to communicate with our representatives at every opportunity. We need to be protesting at every opportunity. If you feel there is not adequate encouragement and guidance from the leaders in the upper echelons of the party, I encourage you to join your local groups, Democratic Party, Democratic Socialist party, Indivisible, etc. Whatever is available in your community. Once you do, you will see a great deal of action, involvement and leadership. I doubt seriously you will continue to be of the opinion that leadership is not doing anything. You will find that people are getting involved and acting ALL OVER THE PLACE.

This is the thing that is so easy to forget these days because we've never had this kind of threat against our democracy: In a democracy, power is seated in the people and it channeled up the hierarchy of leadership, not the other way around. So when you say our leadership isn't telling us what to do, I agree. They are not supposed to. WE are supposed to tell THEM what to do and then expect them to do it, and SHOW them we mean business by getting out in the street, moving through the community engaging others in our fight for this democracy. We have every bit of knowledge of history, strategy, community access available to us through the internet. We just have to take the reins and do whatever we can.

I know it's frustrating. I was there not so long ago. And even now I have that panicky feeling of "Won't somebody please do something!?" But the only way I've been able to quell that anxiety is to keep moving forward with my local community-- our leadership is counting on that. This is our part of protecting our democracy and it's something we will have to be vigilant about from now on.

Peace.