How about a Voters' Revolution?

[BlindTiresias]

114. Correct

It is already too late for the mid terms so I would expect significant Republican turn out as getting people to vote alone is not sufficient. Nate silver and others are already expecting a much closer race, a fact that should be disturbing to everyone here after all the talk of the Republicans being a "doomed party". They are not doomed precisely because the Democrats have o substantial alternative framework and are playing into exactly the same ideological framework as their opponents with predictable results: Unsatisfactory populist policies in the Democratic party which pushes people into or back into the party of Republicans or they opt out altogether. The WHY of people are opting out should be more interesting to concerned individuals like Mineral Man than his repeated attempts to get people to vote.

Status quo dems need to think long and hard about why many are predicting a GOP control of congress in 2014, and is isn't just because of lack of turnout. You need to consider why there is a lack of voter turnout which entails a much more thoughtful analysis than "Just vote!". This is uncritical, reflexive, and entirely unhelpful as well as being extremely divisive. In addition to this there is a real tendency of older dems to fall back on this "Just vote!" rhetoric without for one second investigating why young people seem to lack the eagerness to vote, while at the same time insulting us for not being sufficiently motivated. This does no work but assist the individual in their moral satisfaction in having served their team and is, as we speak, driving a wedge between the old guard dems and the millenial dems who do have the motivation but need something to be motivated about considering this very old guard entirely controls the ideological framework and has been historically hostile to both the left/centre-left and the significant generational presence who has attached themselves to this new left ideology.