A Clarion Call for a New Democratic Era

[Doctor_J]

3. The devil is in the details

as you have said. To actually realize what you're hoping for, and what last night's speeches expounded on, is an uphill battle. We are fighting against tremendous forces, most of which we can't even see. And we can't do anything legally about the ones we CAN see (voter purges, propaganda apparatus that would make Goebbels blush, environmental disasters...)

The convention is very hopeful and I think the president will be re-elected comfortably. But if anything like what you're hoping for is going to take place, the president is going to have to be the instigator, or at least the leader of the push. I think we will know by mid-February how things will play out. If he's talking about health care for all and infrastructure rejuvenation and voting rights and strengthening labor, he'll have hoards of citizens behind him, will shape the Congress to get some things done, and will set the table for another win in 2016 for O'Malley/Warren/Castro. If OTOH he's talking about deficit reduction and school vouchers and job creators, it's over for at least another generation. He'll suffer another massacre in the mid-terms and the agenda will be Reaganesque.

Here's hoping!