We have about one year until the 2006 elections. You help us or don't.

LoZoccolo

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Sun Jan-03-10 07:33 PM
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We have about one year until the 2006 elections. You help us or don't.

Edited on Sun Jan-03-10 07:36 PM by LoZoccolo

A post of mine from ~~2006~~ ON EDIT: 2005.

There is only one year left before our next significant chance to turn things around. There are three types of people at this point:

A. There are those who will work for this change.
B. There are those who will be largely useless in this effort.
C. There are those who will work against this effort.

There is plenty of work to be done, even if you don't like the current state of the Democratic Party. If you'd like to change that, your job now is to support a candidate in the primary. Candidates in several states are collecting signatures to get on the primary ballots. If you're not doing that, be quiet or you are wasting our time complaining that there are no primary candidates to vote for.

After the ballot signatures are collected, if you would like to change who the Democratic Party is running as a candidate in the general election, your job is to convince more people to vote for them than for other candidates. To this end, you can volunteer the campaigns of one of the primary candidate. Your job here is more complex, but still manageable:

- You must convince more people within the party to vote for your candidate.
- You must either pick a candidate who it can be shown can win the general election, or you must succeed in convincing people to vote for them in the general.
- You must do both of these in a way that will not sabatoge whoever wins the primary.

If you are not doing these, be quiet or you are wasting our time complaining that there is no one to vote for. It is your job to give us who to vote for.

After the primary, you will learn whether you have succeeded or failed in providing yourself with your favored candidate to vote for in the general election. Your job here is to support the better candidate whether or not you voted for or supported them in the primary. If you are not doing this, you need to stop blaming other people for your own failure, and wasting their time trying to punish them for succeeding where you have failed.

I invite all of you to be a type A.

I also invite you to manage your time wisely, and give your attention where it deserves to be given. The type B's can be just as destructive as the type C's by leeching the time you could spend making progress. And the type C's are only trying to bring you down on account of their own failure to achieve the fully possible things I list above. Do not waste time arguing with people who show themselves not to be on a track to get what they want.

We have one year. Let's optimize our resources, and not give them to the people who do not wish to succeed, or refuse to learn how to.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=2203808

NOTE: This post was on the front page at a time when - I believe - the administrators would hand-pick which posts made it there, though people could still recommend posts for consideration. It is thus not considered divisive, and was not locked then.