I'm becoming increasingly convinced that talk of 2016 is designed to distract from 2014

[Jack Rabbit]

37. This Democrat is not looking past 2014

I address this mainly to those DUers who, like me, are disappointed in President Obama's performance.

If you are contemplating not voting, please disregard your bitterness and join me in going to the polls. President Obana is not on the ballot and, unless he wants his old Senate seat back, he won't ever be on the ballot again. Love him or hate, trut him or not, he is not part of our future.

There will be some progressive candidates and we have to send a message to the corporate wing of the party that this is what we want, not somebody who's wasting a lifetime nodding when Robert Rubin or Larry Summers opens his mouth only to have Phil Gramm's voice come out of it. We want democracy, not "free trade." We want freedom, not domestic spying. We want peace, not the constant threat of resource wars disguised as "spreading freedom." We're tired of civilians being bombed in our name in order to protect them from tyrants. We want Wall Street bankers prosecuted for fraud, not bailed out so they can defraud us again. We want leaders who listen to us, not assholes who tell us they know what's for us before fucking up the world more than ever.

We send a message to the corporate Democrats by making sure progressives and populists win primaries and go on to defeat the party of Ted Cruz and Sarah Palin in the general election.

That is why 2014 is important. If we succeed, 2016 will take care of itself.