Reply #7: At The Ballot Box...Where It Should Be [View All]

[KharmaTrain]

Sorry to those who thought the world would go from black to white overnight once President Obama was elected. His election marked the beginning of the end of nearly 30 years of right wing and corporate domination of our political system. There are still many who are resisting change (as we've seen with the healtcare debate) and the job of moving this country in a more progressive manner has just begun.

We've come quite a ways from the dark days of 2006 when the rushpublicans controlled all three branches of the government and undoing all the damage (12 years in control of the legislative and then the unitary executive) is not easy nor should have been expected to happen all at once. The next step is to support those progressives and liberals who are gaining power and work to elect even more...and to move forward with not only proposing change but making it happen.

The notion of "armed insurrection" or even mass boycotts are all but impossible to coordinate and make effective...who leads? While broken and imperfect, our system can and will work, but it requires electing more progressive Democrats and minimalizing those who stand in the way of change.