What do you expect Bernie to do, wave a magic wand and
negate the current primary results in the blink of an eye? Levitate
while summoning Hillary in a pentagram made of organic tofu while pixie
sprites tickle her into peeing herself on national TV?
It is going to
take long, hard, sustained work to break the control of massive
corporations that own everything from news outlets to voting machines.
Hell, there were still 1.3 million CA ballots left to count as of
yesterday. We need to do the ground game work that has been left
untouched for the past 40 years!!
I was an elected Dem precinct rep in IL for two terms, and boy did I ever get an education. HALF the damn
precincts had NO ONE to fill them because everyone was too busy forming a
thousand little organizations that never did anything but hold
meetings.
A bunch of local offices went to Republicans unopposed because
we couldn't find anyone to run for them, and the Republicans ALWAYS
could.
Our main job was to get petition signatures to get Dem candidates
names on the ballot for the races where we actually could find
candidates to run, because in IL, you can't pay to get on the ballot.
You either have enough petition signatures, or you'd best change your
name to Blank, because that's what would be on the ballot.
The
DEMOCRATIC voters would be acting like we were beggars asking for crumbs
when we knocked on their doors looking for signatures. You'd think we
were trying to sell them nuclear waste pills!
Bernie is exactly effing
right! If you want a government that works for you, get out there and
BECOME THAT GOVERNMENT, and treat well those that make the effort to do
so!
#StillSanders, dammit!
In a self-governing nation, #YouGetTheGovernmentYouAre. It's long past due that Progressives dive whole-heartedly into #CivilService. (Notice that the first results that come up are in the UK, not the USA?)
Ok,
so I'm down off my soap box. I love you Bernie Brigade people. You're
my people. Really and truly. All of the above is historical now. I
believe over 11,000 people around the country have responded to Bernie's call since last night's live-stream address. I only wish it were a couple of million of us.
Finally
we are getting to the local-level involvement in government that will
shift the ground under the feet of the political establishment in an
organized fashion.
We have a LOT of catching up to do. The Republicans have been at it for 30 years or more, maybe 40. This is why they have been able to drag the country so far to the right.
The good news is that a lot of people agree with us. We can do this. We must do this.
Bern on,
Dan
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