How about a Voters' Revolution?

[TheKentuckian]

55. This is the pool that must be tapped, they are not going to be attracted by the offerings in pursuit

of the mystical middle and they are not going to be sustained to keep hammering away at the polls by faith and here is the problem there is no vehicle to attract them to.

I got new voters to the polls in 2008, and we have generated new levels of cynicism among them.

Who else you gonna vote for?
Ponies!
Don't let the tolerable become the enemy of the only somewhat unacceptable.
"Eat your peas."
The surge.
"We must listen to the stakeholders".
"We don't have the votes".
"Look forward".
"All of the above".
"Embrace the suck".

All are great pitches to to the politically cynical to stay the fuck home not a sirens call to the process.

Of all the reasons I am upset with the party, this is one of the greatest driving away the converts we desperately need from the couch in pursuit of regressives that just voted for Sarah fucking Palin and telling those we had just got into the swing to shut up about their "ponies". Those people are lost, the next ones up don't give a shit and/or think it is all bullshit making them harder to get than the people who care but are cynical to nihilistic about the system and process.

You need fervor to sustain any kind of revolution and the only fervor I see is around personalities on the nominal left and for really stupid and wicked philosophy on the well funded right, guess which one creates the most die hard motivation cycle after cycle? Duh...The faces change as does the make up of the ardents that go with them, meanwhile the ideologues we oppose keep on coming no matter what. They also want nothing by training and so can be sustained by nothing a hell of a lot longer, they aren't growing new members quickly enough to offset the ones they lose to the reaper but they are relentless and can be because setbacks to the agenda don't hurt them (and actually may mitigate disaster enough not to shatter their bubble).

They want minorities treated as 2nd class at best. They want to tell women how to run their bodies. They hate social spending and love the wealthy getting more wealth.

They favor an unwieldy military bent toward acquisition of resources for corporations to exploit and "free trade".

They like "fee for service" schemes that make it seem like they have choices.

As such they are either winning despite elections or have no actual skin in the game they want to impose and can always keep pushing.

Now, the environment is even worse with all the unchecked and unopposed money in the mix.

The system is corrupted and is in a deadly feedback loop now. It is not truly quiet beyond hope but it is close if there is no party not wallowing in the filth. Lesser evilism is not a fix here, it leaves us with neither cart nor horse to build from.