Progressives should take a page from the inside-outside strategy embraced--

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4. The fact that Bernie Sanders generated so much enthusiasm

tells me there is solid interest in a new way of doing things.

Although I abhor the Tea Party`s political positions, I found their willingness to defy RNC commands quite interesting. Both the RNC and the DNC have miscalculated the amount of citizen`s disgust with the status quo. I can`t imagine that disgust simply melting away after the election. The task for Progressive`s is finding a unified step forward. While that might difficult, I can`t help but think back to the protests of the Vietnam War. Millions of people came together long before everyone had access to simple, instant forms of communication. There were no emails, no cell phones, no social media that could produce instant results, yet millions of voters managed to unite for a common purpose and get their message on the front pages of newspapers and on the nightly news. We did it then, we can do it now.

Citizens fed up with the status quo are not going to go away. Those in opposition to this Progressive movement can continue to believe it`s driven by a bunch of pie-in-the-sky twenty year olds, but that is so, so far from the truth.