Must Keep Fighting

Unless you care more about George W.'s ego than the safety and welfare
of our troops, you are pissed right now. But there is productive
pissed, and destructive pissed. The productive stuff has us redoubling
our efforts to clean house in Congress, clearing out the dead weight,
the corporatists, and the Republicans. There's the taking over our
local parties, bringing new blood and a cohesive sense of purpose to
often moribund organizations.

And there's nothing that the DLC/Third War wing of the party would
love more, than to see use take our ball and go home.

Keep in mind that while a demoralized progressive activist base
has negative repercussions for Democratic electoral fortunes in
general elections, in terms of intra-party power struggles, a
demoralized, progressive, grassroots activist base actually
strengthens the position of neoliberals, LieberDems, and the DLC-nexus
within the Democratic Party power structure. If progressive grassroots
activists are too demoralized to make small donations, the party
becomes more reliant on large donors. If we are too demoralized to run
for party office or challenge sitting Democrats in primaries, the
establishment Democratic power structure are never held accountable
for running ineffective campaigns or selling out the base. If we don't
use the strength of the progressive movement in the 2008 presidential
primaries, then the influence the DLC-nexus, neoliberals, and
LieberDems have in determining the direction of the Democratic Party
increases. And on and on. In other words, there are those who benefit
internally from a demoralized, inactive, progressive grassroots base,
even if the party as a whole is damaged. We all saw this from
1994-2002, when the Democratic Party was regularly defeated in general
elections on a scale not seen since the 1920s, and while the DLC-nexus
simultaneously solidified a unprecedented level of control over the
Democratic Party establishment.

I have news for you guys -- this won't be the last disappointment
we'll ever suffer. Heck, politics is about perpetually fighting
battles, and no one -- no one -- has an undefeated record.

In the words of Meteor Blades:

Amazing how people who talk about standing tough and fighting back
surrender so easily.

That doesn't mean 'stop being angry'. It means, 'stand tough and fight
back'.

....from the Kos
.

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