Let's let our senators know that we want them to get tough with the Republicans -- for a change!

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5. The common notion that Democrats in congress are weak and

ineffectual, always being kicked around by Republicans, is itself a product of misinformation and fake news.

It is true that damaging, immoral, corrupt, and even illegal behaviors that hurt democracy and the American people can be very effective and that Republicans use them to good effect. They can behave destructively, such as implementing conspiracies to harness the information revolution to pickle whole populations' brains with lies and to take over government by unlimited campaign spending, because they simply don't believe in liberty, equality, and justice for all and the use of government to secure them the way we do.

For what we have achieved, look around. Liberals'/Democrats' great achievements have been, first to create, and then over 225 years to protect and advance democracy and progressive goals from the continual, passionate determination of those who believe in neither to destroy both. That's beyond HUGE. Democracy itself is the product of liberals, and the people we sent to Congress are and have always been on the front lines of a battle to protect it that began with its creation and will never end.