Advice for Fellow Liberals

Some good advice (quoted at length from DailyKos : What is generally considered the most important galvanizing event for the modern conservative movement? The crushing defeat, in 1964, of Barry Goldwater.Did the conservatives give up after what should have been a humiliating defeat in 1964? Of course not. They never gave up, not once. They organized in just about every precinct in America. They put out legions of volunteers. They created organizations, and think tanks, and press operations, and trained and developed and nurtured young political operatives. They raised money. And throughout it all, they pursued a two-pronged approach: 1. They did whatever they could to create Republican majorities. 2. They did whatever they could to take control of the Republican party, and where possible nominate and elect conservative fellow travelers to office.Note that never have they divorced one from the other. They almost all always fight to do what they can to install and maintain majorities. Then, over time, they became a majority of the majority party. In the overall body politic, the movement conservatives are a minority, and certainly not even a plurality when you divide up the electorate into regional and ideological segments. But they control the Republican party, and in the persons of George W. Bush and Karl Rove, they have tools and fellow conspirators.

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There are only two games in town, folks, the Republicans and the Democrats. Regardless of what some may wish, we're in a winner-take-all system, so your choices are the following:

1. Actively help change the Democratic party into the party you want.
2. Actively help change the Republican party into the party you want.
3. Do nothing within the parties, and be a passive consumer of what the parties present to you.

There really aren't any other choices. It's up to you. But if you're really a fighter, you'll recognize where the fight is. You'll recognize that it's not going to be won overnight; it took the conservatives almost 40 years to fully take over the Repub party and instill conservative ideologues in control of our national government.