2014 elections are critical. 2016, even more so.

[MannyGoldstein]

Democrats need to win every damned seat that we can win in 2014. Winning both houses of Congress is necessary for the change we need - but it is not sufficient.

Our next chance to really shake things up via the ballot box is 2016. Only once we have a strong Liberal in the White House, with a two Democratic houses of Congress, will we see a reversal in the 99%'s descent towards oblivion.

Strong. Liberal.

We need both. Nothing less will do. And it can't happen until 2016.

The last time our country faced a situation like we have now, it took FDR and two Democratically-controlled houses of Congress to right the ship. Even then, it was damned difficult.

Here's the rub: getting a Liberal into the Oval Office requires a revolution. A revolution. And revolutions don't happen fast. They happen slow. Only the final bit happens fast. The Soviet Bloc dissolved in months, but it was decades of Western policy and years of Perestroika and Glasnost that eased it to the edge of the cliff.

Most Americans are still filled with The Stupid today, even if they're finally getting an inkling that they're getting pummeled by both flavors of our political elites. We need to start educating our country now on the virtues of Liberalism, our results-oriented political philosophy, if we're to have a prayer of getting one of ours through the Democratic primaries and through a general election in 2016.

Dropping Hillary Clinton into the nominee spot is easy. Give her the nomination, and she'll have a reasonable shot at winning. But then we'll wake up to Hillary as our President. I suppose if you like what the Clintons did to our country last time, and are Ready For Hillary™ that's OK.

But if we want honest-to-God progress for the 99%, and a reversal of our fortunes, we'll need to put a Liberal at the head of the ticket.

I happen to love Elizabeth Warren, and hope she's that person. There are a few other Democrats who are as smart, as brave, as honest, and as caring as she is; but none throws a lightning bolt like Warren. A calm, clear, righteous voice, then BANG!. Suddenly, there's a CFPB. BANG! Suddenly, bankers are getting fined a little. BANG! Suddenly the head of the NY Fed is saying that bankers need to start, you know, respecting the law.

Warren may not run, although contrary to many oddly-desperate posts on DU, she's not ruled it out. I've had my eye on her for a number of years, since she wrote The Two-Income Trap a decade ago, which chronicled how the 99% are getting @#$%ed. FWIW, I think she'll run in a heartbeat if she sees an opening. That's her nature. But it's not her nature to run for her own glory - rather, she'll do it for the greater good. This is a woman who is outraged, outraged, outraged by all the injustice and is eager to use the gifts that God and/or nature gave her to do what she can to help.

(And lest I be called a racist again, I'll explicitly point out here that I think and hope that she'll work for white men and for all other minorities - we must all be equal, but we must all be equally rising.)

So let's put all of the effort we can into winning 2014. We need to win. We need to. We must.

But we also need to set the stage for change in 2016, and we need to start that process now. We've been losing for 30 years, and many have suffered and died - time to pummel the bastards and take our country back!

[Scuba]

1. Hear, hear.

[Stinky The Clown]

2. Indeed.

[MannyGoldstein]

4. Well... I'm glad she changed the hair style

Sexist, I know.

[snot]

3. Time for some Liberal Yee-Haw!

[Corruption Inc]

5. Will corrupt banks, drone killers, torture supporters and war criminals be held accountable in 2014?

Nah, why hold the worst criminals in American history accountable for anything when a few Senate seats are up for grabs in repuke voting districts?

Here's the point: a hell of lot more (D)s would get elected if the current (D)s in power started holding a few trials for the worst criminals in American history. Otherwise, the 2014 elections will just be more of the same corrupt BS.

Now carry one everyone, ignore me and the remaining Americans still capable of rational thought.