Reply #67: Well, if you're like me, I don't want to give you a procrastination excuse [View All]

[jpgray]

:D

But yes, you're exactly right, and you make some very good points above.

I do think there is some laziness in the left in regards to this kind of work, but worse I think it is actively encouraged--there is the implication that the system is the system and we can only wait until government officials make the people mad enough to see things our way before anything will get done. Translation: we shouldn't do any work. :(

Now there are millions of leftists who work very hard for their ideals, but many more are indoctrinated with the idea that this nation's politics is so flawed an institution that it is not possible or worthwhile to salvage it from within. The conservatives have no such compunction about using the organs of government and the media to promote their message within the system as well as without--we just don't do that as well, and sometimes we lack even the inclination to do so.

Maybe we are beginning to head in the right direction, though.