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

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175. Appreciate that so much!

The flaming gets old. Those types of posters just LOVE to all jump on the same band wagon. The same spiel over and over and over. I guess they feel better by trying to blame the "little people" for not doing enough. Perhaps they are starting to see what he's actually getting away with, and they are starting to panic. I don't know the psychology.

All I do know is that, like you said, we are in perilous and unprecedented times, and we need perilous and unprecedented action by our representatives. Like you, I wake up in the mornings, fearful and tearful because my once great country that gave me rights like no where else in the world is disappearing right in front of my eyes. I'm in Texas, so we've been at this bullshit for a while. Texas is the test case that the Republicans have used to see how their plans work and to see how far they can get. And they've gotten pretty damn far. I have family ties and an animal rescue here, or I'd be gone in a heartbeat. But leaving is not a realistic possibility with my responsibilities here. Soon, it won't matter anyway because it will be the whole country. Not just Texas.

The fear that we feel is genuine. We are indeed going to wake up one morning and he will have declared himself dictator. I don't know if he will use that exact word, but he'll start making excuses to either postpone or do away with elections completely. He'll keep promising things that never materialize. We are already much further down the path on the Project 2025 agenda than even *I* thought we would be at this point. So it won't be much longer.

The "what are you doing" crowd doesn't seem to understand that many of us already take it for granted that EVERYONE here on DU, at least, is already taking part in activism. We don't need to be "gently admonished" that we should do it. We've been doing it!!! We've been doing it in Texas for close to ten years now, and where has that gotten us? No where. Because the playing field is already rigged against us.

To say that the Democrats CAN'T do anything, to me at least, is the real defeatist attitude. Why can't we expect them to do something? Why can't we expect them to do their jobs? Push the freaking envelope. Because if not now, then when? Dems are so worried about getting their hands dirty or muddying their reputations, that they are going to stand by and let him take over without any real pushback. Surely, there is something that they can do. If the situation were reversed, I can guarantee you that Republicans wouldn't sit idly by. They'd be doing something creative and unusual. THAT's what I want from Democrats. And if it means "being like them", then so be it because that is what it's going to take.

Republicans don't sit around and worry about pushing that envelope. Hell, they shove it wherever they want to. And we are not and cannot win by playing by the rules when the enemy is not confined by ANY rules whatsoever. We have to meet them on THEIR playing fields and we have to kick their asses, and *I* don't see that as a bad thing right now. I see it as necessary.

I laughed at one post talking about voting rights being taken from women. One very confident poster said "that will take a constitutional amendment". Really? Well what happens when there is no longer a Constitution? Have people like this really not entertained the idea of what REALLY can happen on this path that we are on? Unless it gets stopped, women will be in burkas. It's happened before.

We aren't alone in our thinking. Even on DU, we're not alone. One of my posts had quite a few recommendations, and I'm guessing that's because people agree, but don't want to get flamed. You hit on that aspect. The polls support our point because most registered Democrats don't believe that their representatives are doing enough. But the group of posters screaming "what are YOU doing" are loud and proud. Good for them.

Anyway, thanks so much for your kind post. Know that I'm right there with you and scared to death.