Anyone else worry about how lazy we could get?

[HEyHEY]

After this win? I remember we had a city election in 2002. The youth came out and completely wiped-out the right-wing moron party from city politics. It was awesome. Then, the next election, those same people just didn't show up to vote and the righties won city hall again. How much work will the dems do to make sure their supporters don't become content?

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

1. Yes...

When We Get to Where We Failed Before

by Jon Vote

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0410-28.htm

---snip---

One only has to look to history to realize it is just a matter of time. It may happen overnight or over a period of weeks but it will happen sooner or later. Eventually the lies, deceit and hypocrisy will reach a critical mass of awareness and the public will turn against those responsible with fury.

The mainstream media will react predictably. They will credit themselves as the instruments of this mass revelation. They will write articles about how ‘we were all fooled.’ They will pat their own backs and give each other awards for excellence in journalism as each morsel is parsed out to a now interested and briefly engaged public. For a rare and fleeting moment, the truth will be good for the bottom line. The myth of the free press will live on a little longer.

A few scapegoats will be drawn up from the ultra loyal and expendable within the administration to be sacrificed in the public forum. There will be dramatic but fruitless hearings in Congress and a show trial or two in the courts. But the institutions will remain unchanged and plausible deniability will rein victorious once again.

The Democrats will call for a new bi-partisan era of cooperation as they kowtow to their corporate masters’ desires for a submissive but ever consuming public. They will abandon their colleagues, constituents and their professed values to maintain their positions of power and prestige . . . .

[xiamiam]

2. its how we got into the bush administration..things were good under clinton..i wasnt paying

attention ..and the monica thing drove me nuts..and then they stole 2000 with the help of the supreme court...and then 911..and then, well we all know the rest...but i sometimes think its because life was much better and easier...we werent humiliated by the things that our country was doing and saying or not saying and doing...and i think we just got ourselves into this by being a little too relaxed...not quite believing that any of it could have ever happened...well, now we know it can and it did...never again though...

[baby_mouse]

3. No, actually.

I think the sheer magnitude of revulsion that the left felt at the latest round of right wing hideousness this time round will last for some time to come and outweigh any sense of complacency for some time to come.

I mean rally quite a lot of time to come.

[Breeze54]

4. Hopefully the internet will keep everyone informed and up to date!

The next elections are in two years for the Congress and some Senate seats.

Take a much earned rest for right now but keep your eyes on the prize, everyone! ;)