The wet dream of having a real liberal tsunami in the streets today.

[Zalatix]

It doesn't matter who we put into office, the Plutocracy will either put them to heel or put them down, hard. You saw what happened to Jimmy Carter, you saw what happened to Russ Feingold and Alan Grayson, and many others.

It is a doomed cause that places its aspirations for hope and change in our politicians, especially a handful whose arms can be twisted or their careers broken.

We here in California beat the hundreds of millions spent out by the GOP and their Plutocrats. In 2010 This! Was! Sparta! and we held the line. (Shout outs to y'all Connecticut DUers who beat big spending Linda McMahon!)

How did we do it? We got out the message and we got out the vote.

That's how we've got to beat the Plutocracy. We've got to join forces with other groups that are fighting these corporate statists. Join Occupy Wall Street's protests, swell their numbers. Donate, if you can't show up. Become more active in your community, find ways to create jobs locally (considering that corporate America has abandoned this country, this may be our only hope for a recovery). Revive ACORN style community organizing.

Why is there so little talk on DU about liberals creating their own hope and change? Why not channel our energy from believing in or criticizing Democrat politicians, toward doing the things ourselves that they can't do?

Why did we lose good candidates like General Ricardo Sanchez?

How many times do we have to keep getting kicked in the rear until we realize that we need to become more active?

[Scootaloo]

1. Sadly the usual response from the "rank and file"

is to give up when the going gets tough, or to not even attempt it. or they break out the knives to stab at candidates who no longer cling to that narrow ledge of perfect ideological purity at all time.

Thus the people that remain to wrestle for their goals are both few in number and probably pretty damned exhausted.

[BlueToTheBone]

5. Here are two things you can do right now. One doesn't cost a penny

and only takes a minute

Ken is fighting Walmart/Womack in the 3rd district. This has been red for over 40 years and it is ripe for a true progressive. PLease donate to his campaign today.
http://aden4arkansas.com/

Also, DFA will contribute to his campaign with more supporters. Please go here and click for Ken Aden.
http://www.democracyforamerica.com/campaigns/4286-ken-aden-for-congress Help us get to 100 supporters today!

[Zalatix]

6. Thanks for the heads-up! n/t

.

[BlueToTheBone]

7. Please go and become his supporter

we are at #56, please become #57!
http://www.democracyforamerica.com/campaigns/4286-ken-aden-for-congress

edited to add link

[Bluenorthwest]

2. Step one: CA did well. So did the other States in the region....

Like CA, neither Oregon nor Washington sent any new Republicans to Congress. Oregon, exactly like CA, elected again a Democrat who had already been Governor to that office a second time after years out of office. Unlike CA, the outgoing was also a Democrat, not Arnold.
Oregon had the highest midterm turn out since the 80's. How did we do it?
CA was not Sparta. The West Coast was Sparta. Many will say 'across the county Republicans won' and yet that is simply false, their tide did not cross this nation, it did not make it to the Pacific Coast at all.
CA of course faced higher spending with Meg and Carly yet Brown hardly spent at all, which shows that money does not make for a win at all. We also had more money spent than in prior years, large funding of crazy Republicans. We also defeated them all.

[Zalatix]

3. Way to go, Oregon.

Hopefully both of us will send Republicans back home in defeat in 2012, too.

[BlueToTheBone]

4. We have an incredible candidate in Arkansas Ken Aden

Ken is fighting Walmart/Womack in the 3rd district. This has been red for over 40 years and it is ripe for a true progressive. PLease donate to his campaign today.
http://aden4arkansas.com/

Also, DFA will contribute to his campaign with more supporters. Please go here and click for Ken Aden.
http://www.democracyforamerica.com/campaigns/4286-ken-aden-for-congress Help us get to 100 supporters today!