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In reply to the discussion: Big review set by Democrats after election losses [View all]KoKo
(84,711 posts)for the first time to Hook Up with diverse people over politics and political causes that we hadn't had before. American isn't that cohesive Small Town Atmosphere it was long ago. Many of us move for jobs and live in circumstances where we have little in common with our neighbors or friends or even at work these days.
Dean Meet Ups and those Videos/Phone Call In's got us energized to go outside our neighborhoods to meet others where we had a common cause....Dem Politics was really getting into shape with this new approach.
We Progressives both Dean and Kucinich Activists got together and started to build a Progressive Dem Party in our State.......and we did great... We couldn't get our State to go for Kerry but for Obama in 2008 we were the only Southern State to go for Obama in 2008. By 2012....our Progressive Group was starting to fall apart. No input from the DNC and Howard Dean was long gone. The Housing Crash and Unemployment had taken hold and our thriving State fell on hard times. There wasn't any action here from DNC and from our State Dems (John Edwards Scandal hurt us) and some other local scandals nothing to do with Progressives.
So...here we are with 2014 MidTerms...losing our only Dem Senator and with a Repub House and Senate and Governor.