Reply #41: I don't care about unrecs. This was posted to generate discussion, [View All]

[MineralMan]

not to get on the Greatest Page. The whole rec/unrec thing is bullshit. Some people don't like my suggestion that we can make changes through hard work to nominate and elect better people than we have now, I think. That's why the unrecs.

If they're not willing to bust their asses to find better candidates and get them elected, then they're irrelevant to the process. My plan, from here on out, is to ignore them completely and keep calling for people to get involved and work to elect progressives instead of complaining that non-progressives hold office.

It's that simple. They can unrecommend as many of my threads as they wish. That's not why I'm posting.

Something will pass in the Senate. Something will come out of conference. Something will probably pass both houses. It will be a crappy bill, but it will pass. Now, we need to see to it that the current situation does not continue. The only, and I repeat, only way that can happen is if we get better people into office. There is only one way to do that, too, and DU posts aren't going to do it.

I keep mentioning Al Franken. I do that because he got elected because people did just what I'm advocating. It works. It can work elsewhere.