Reply #11: Exactly! It is turning people off. [View All]

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And, you're right. Most of the people who type on here will go out, hold their noses, and vote for whoever the party anointed in our states and districts. Hopefully, between now and then, we are working to support more progressive candidates in the primaries.

But the young voters who felt, for the first time, they had a reason to go vote are not going to still have that kind of enthusiasm without seeing some results which matter to them. Those of us pointing this out are not responsible for the fact that our legislators and the current administration have not advocated strongly for issues which would improve the situation of working class people and young people who can't find jobs or get help for higher education. The new coalition they pulled together for 2008 is, likely, to fall apart.

Shooting the messenger is one way to, perhaps, suppress the vote among those of us on here who would, for the most part, go vote for whatever (D) makes it into the general election. The thought occurred to me, today, that some of this could be coming from the (R)'s and is meant to alienate us, make us feel there is no room for us in the party, and drive our numbers down in 2010. No way to know but it's starting to look suspicious.

In the interest of balance I will, also, state that I was on the receiving end of some rather rancorous communication from the left (of which I am a member) one day for saying "single payer" instead of "Medicare for all.' That's not helpful, either. But the rancor from the right has been much more inflammatory of late.