Democrats Lost More Than an Election in 2014

[PatrickforO]

1. The democrats as a whole are gutless. A party that cannot own...

Its own positions during an election, and whose candidates 'run away' from a President who had done some true good and put some great policies in place, does not represent the people. We groan under the absence of statesmen and stateswomen in the party, which has, by and large, become the realm of political hacks only concerned with getting reelected.

We have the internet folks - the msm isn't EVER going to force a discussion on real issues because the corporations that own news outlets don't want that. But we have Twitter. We have blogs. We have Facebook. We have telephones.

I would have responded to the Democrats FAR better this time around if I didn't get 25 or 30 emails a day saying things like, "All hope is gone," and "You haven't donated yet," and "We've run out of people to email you."

Please give us money!

That's all we got, and there was no coherent message. Yes, I voted for Democrats, but I didn't feel good about it. Because I didn't feel like they'd do much to help you and I and the rest of the people if they got into office. We need more like Warren and Sanders who actually talk about issues.

One thing that was really good is the direct democracy that was shown - pot legalized in 3 more places, minimum wage increased, abortion kept legal - all by popular vote. This is direct democracy, and it worked. Electing a shill to send to Washington to supposedly represent our interests...not so much.