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[erpowers]

[Juche]

1. I don't think people are going to give up

At least not totally. Big issues like civil rights, womens rights, abolishing child labor, unionization, etc. took decades to accomplish. I don't think people will totally give up.

Its just demoralizing, because our hopes were really high in 2008. We'd brought about 2 landslide congressional elections back to back (I think the only time in US history when 2 landslides occurred back to back for the same party was 2006 and 2008). We elected a black man as president who the world respects. Its demoralizing and it'll take some time to regroup. I think these recent events really stripped away the illusion that we are not a plutocracy and forced us to realize how bad things really are. The best it seems we can hope for is a mandate to buy overpriced insurance from immoral companies which will experience few new functioning regulations. We can't even get a public option, but there is still a mandate.

However, I'm still going to donate time and money in 2010 and 2012. But it'll go to primaries from the left, not to 'any' democratic candidate like I did in 2008.