OK...what's our strategy ?

[kentuck]

What can we do to show our disapproval of this election and this Administration? What can we do to try and stop this illegal and immoral war? What can we do to stop them from throwing the weak and needy overboard as their deficits swell? What can we do to prevent more of our young people from dying? What can we do to show people that it is we that are the compassionate and caring Party? The ideas may start here but what do we put into action? And when? And where?

[purduejake]

1. Fight for a recount....

and secure the election system. John Kerry isn't the answer to all of the problems, but he's a great start.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Economic activism has started

I would like to dub it the Second Boston tea Party

That said, I think our next step is leaphleting... and I mean it

Can be done in many ways,from pasing leaphlets out to ahem abandonging them in busses


We cannot just wait for leaders to step up... we are those leaders

[autorank]

3. Ground up--Top Down: Anti War--Economic Populism

The first task is to put verified voting front and center and get it changed by the 2006 elections, whatever it takes.

Task two involve more local intensive organizing in red and quasi red states. There has to be an information exchange between Montana & Colorado and the rest of the state democratic parties.

Task three will depend on whoever wants to be our lead Democrat, something we desperately need. This person should be anti war with credentials and willing to take on outsourcing, protectionism and corporate greed as a package. If Clark steps up great (he's my guy). If someone in congress will do this (not holding my breath) great. But somebody needs to speak for us all across the country in a perpetual campaign that should start in the next couple of months.

This plus a lot of people working hard and giving should do it!

[necso]

5. "our lead Democrat, something we desperately need"

I agree with this, but I am not sure that we can agree on a "message" for that leader to step up to.

And I think that this leader must be someone who isn't currently burdened by an "office" or other major commitments.

[autorank]

7. I agree. If someone makes the sacrifice and hits these issues...

I'm happy to have him/her as my "leader"...because he'll be following the core of the party. I agree, congressional leaders need to speak up there for a change. I'd love to see Clark hit the trail, particularly in the south and mid west and stay there (like Alexander in Persia).

[necso]

8. As much as I like Clark,

(I was an early supporter), I am not sure that this is in the cards.

An "outsider", however, also has the advantage of not having to vote on bills, govern or tow the "party line".

Clark, Dean and Edwards are all good candidates on the basis of being nationally recognized candidates (to some degree), but the "message" is the important thing. -- Such a message, even if out of the current mainstream, can become part of the "Democratic message" because of the sheer weight behind it.

But, again, I think that the chances of getting any sort of agreement among (enough) activists on a "message" are rather low. And, I believe, it will remain this way until we get over the fixation with left/center/right, which is a hopelessly inadequate model to deal with political discussion.

But, of course, all this is just my opinion.

And Alexander moved on to India, I believe... but still, he remained in the "east" (largely anyway). His death is recorded in Babylon, I think.

I don't wish to be fussy, but someone else may, and we might as well cut off this particular avenue of attack. (You know, the old: "You have one thing wrong, so everything else must be" routine -- a freeper favorite.)

[lcordero]

4. how about this

economic divestment from the corporate media and their subsidiaries, red states, subsidiaries of the M/U complex...

[deutsey]

6. I just posted this on another thread:

I'm becoming convinced that we need to embrace the Wobbly philosophy that we are all leaders. That's how the Wobblies responded in 1916, I think, when a sheriff asked a boatload of them who their leaders were. They all answered in unison: "We are all leaders."

Stop looking to Kerry, Gore, Clinton, Jackson, Phil Intheblank, to lead us; start leading where you are and address the issues that are most relevant and important to you and those in your community; link these local efforts to state, regional, and national efforts.