The Rude Pundit - You Wanna Keep Harassing Women at Clinics? Then Let's Play

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112. Here:

I know it's another thread of mine, but I found this comment on Daily Kos, and I want to make sure everybody here can see it. Our side has been asleep. And dropped the ball. We're only now waking up to the enemy onslaught that has been allowed to grow and metastasize like a cancer for at least 30 years. At least since the reagan era. And so much damage has been done, unabated and unchecked and unrestrained, that I honestly don't know if some of it can be undone - at least not anytime soon!

The bad guys have been hard at it for years now. Not just nationally but AT THE STATE LEVEL. They listened to ralph reed and his advice about starting at the school board level and working one's way up - while our side snickered and scoffed and then rolled over and went back to sleep. Our side thoroughly underestimated the resolve and energy and vigor of the enemy. And we're pretty badly screwed. I don't see a way out of this unless the baggers secede from the GOP and form their own party - which would confuse the hell outta that side and split up the vote into constant Spoiler-ville - which could get us Democratic majorities again. But that's the only way I see that can work. Please consider the link here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025154765

We need beefing up all over. It's only now started. We have a somewhat flabby cable network that is NOT liberal 24/7/365, but it's the best we've got. We have the internet that is now threatened. We have the detestable Citizens United working against us. We have unions on the ropes - and that was at one point a source of strength, and funding, too. We have regulations rolled back all over the place. We have AT LEAST 30 YEARS of catching-up to do. All that ground we gained, all the progress we initiated, all the forward motion we fought for - much of it is gone. The enemy has a HUGE and now quite solid head start. We have a hard struggle ahead. And we can't afford to relax and roll over and go back to sleep! That means the enemy gains more ground and then wins outright. Hell, at this point, our very PLANET is at risk because this shit has been allowed to metastasize!!!

As I said in a post on that thread above - WHERE is Howard Dean when we need him? Where are the Howard Dean-type thinkers and strategists? WHERE is the "50-State Strategy" mentality when we need it? As long as Beltway bozos like Debbie and friends are running things, we're screwed, long-term.