Eat, pray -- and vote---Rather than sitting out, progressives can sit in.--By Katrina vanden Heuvel [View All]

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Eat, pray -- and vote

By Katrina vanden Heuvel
Tuesday, September 21, 2010

These prospects should concentrate the mind. This is indeed a choice election. We're not talking about a simple change of power in Congress, we're talking about a fundamental reordering of America in terms of its priorities and possibilities.

Of course, there is an alternative. Rather than sitting out, progressives can sit in. We can channel our disappointment and anger (and fear of a GOP takeover) into organizing and campaigning for the principles we believe in, as the One Nation march on the Mall in Washington will seek to do on Oct. 2. After all, the change we seek isn't going to come through one election, or one president. It will come from building coalitions, supporting progressive candidates and organizing independently.

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