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(72 posts)You know how it works in the midterms. The Democratic coalition that comes out during presidential election years (particularly the last two presidential elections) just doesn't turn up for midterms, which is so damn frustrating because one can easily see that its more than just the President to pass the kind of agenda that needs to be passed. How do we get our side out in the midterms to combat the older and mostly Republican voting bloc that votes in the midterms?
Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)Get them to talk to their friends and families.
Then add to this find the Democratic meet-up in your area. Work with them to get the word out.
This fight starts in our own backyards to protect our own backyards!
IrishAyes
(6,151 posts)Where there are few other declared Democrats around and none except me are willing to stick their neck out for a meet-up, write letters to the editors of every newspaper you can find that will publish them. That's the most widely read section of many papers, especially the ones that lack a comics page! Use social media, too, as much as you can. Subscribe to the newsletters of good Democrats and sign petitions for your causes until your fingers are ready to fall off.
Often it's hard to tell if you're changing any minds, and plenty of people will castigate if not outright threaten you, but I tend to take the latter result as encouragement. At least you know you're hitting sore spots.
For instance today I read this week's paper which carried a screeching response to what I wrote for last week's edition. The guy didn't call me by name, but he started off complaining about Democrats' alleged lies and then proceeded to shovel so much manure of his own that the very page stank to high heaven. I'm pleased to report that among his other infuriated 'rebuttals' to everything I'd written, he called everyone in our party LYING HYENAS OF SOCIALISM. Oh, and I almost forgot; he called us lazy and greedy, too.
Well! I guess that showed me! I'll run to cover right now and never spread my socialist lies around here again!
And people wonder why I stay home the day after elections! I AM afraid one of those pitched beer bottles might find their mark one day. And I'd probably strut a little with a smug grin on my face. So it's best to stay home the day after and celebrate in private. Heck, I don't even go to church the following Sunday for fear of setting off a riot. These people are touchy, touchy!
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mwrguy
(3,245 posts)Should have pushed this all through in 2009 or 2010.
Those kids might still be alive.
Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)We MUST look at what to do now.
And what must be done is to get a Congress that WILL pass the gun registration reform we need.
whathehell
(29,743 posts)is Totally Unacceptable...A brazen slap in the face.
May as well start to call this place The National Rifle States of America,
or just the "The Corporate States of America".
Gave a somewhat large donation today to "Move To Amend", an organization
completely dedicated to overturning Citizens United...They're being backed
by Common Cause, People for the American Way and others.
If you'd like to stop allowing Corporations to be "people",
You might want to go to their website.
movetoamend.org