Want a more progressive president? Then get a more progressive Congress.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

41. Howard Dean gave us the 50-state strategy that many here have embraced.

However, when told that this strategy resulted in the election of a large group of Blue Dog Democrats, many DUers don't want to hear or accept that.

And now that the Democratic Party is forced to open its "Big Tent" to allow voices from all ideological perspectives in, many can't seem to handle that.

My issue is this: If we want a viable progressive coalition that has the ability to push progressive legislation through Congress, then we have to work hard at the local and state levels to get more progressives elected to Congress.

Until this happens, we're stuck in this trajectory.

It's easy and foolish to blame just Obama. He's one man. He's not Congress, and he's not the Judiciary.

We need more progressives with a viable voice in the halls of Congress in order to affect real change.

Many of us have found ourselves repeating this over and over again, and it has fallen on deaf ears of those here at DU and others in progressive circles who simply cannot come to grips with this reality.