Exhaustive (and exhausting) list of obstacles to Democratic victory in 2014.

[ancianita]

29. Then you naively play semantics, substituting "excuses" for reality. Of course they're important.

Rather than trying to get the youth vote enthusiastic for a leader, get them enthusiastic for their own role in politics - for the fact that whether they like it or not, anything they do has consequences for this country. Get them to understand that they don't need to expect a political leader to convince them to be involved: That they are involved no matter what, and their choice is whether they take responsibility for what follows or just delegate their decisions to lobbyists.

How about instead of waging American Idol campaigns, we provide some damn Civics education?

WE? How about you read around some past threads in DU, lurk more and see how concretely DU'ers have tactically linked and discussed your very handy solutions. But then you'd have to have a star membership to get access to archived threads.

You think you're telling people something new here? For the 3.5 years I've spent here, DU'ers have discussed and acted upon your high sounding solutions, not to mention sharing fundraising, petitioning and actual candidacy efforts that have had direct effects on national opinion polls.

Until you yourself outline your activist bona fides, accomplishments, and then lead by example along these lines, I really can't take your proclamations seriously, and neither should others here.

Thanks for your OP. It's good. But your solutions leave a lot out about the "how."