Reply #56: You are sitting back and waiting for "our party" to do something

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Rather than trying to move the country leftward, and that's why the country is so rightward.

You're living up to the repuke stereotype of a liberal, just expecting the government to do things for you and not even willing to fight that the government do things for others.

You should be out running for a school board seat just like a right winger would do. And supporting the leftmost viable party, like a right winger would do. We have to give them one thing, they have energy. They never sit and complain that their party has abandoned them, they go out and do.

Look at all the teabag protests with nary a one from the left. Every time they are energetically calling Senators and campaigning for this or that, even in a minority. We seem to do a little work and then sit back as though we can expect everything to fall into place.