Just a simple idea. Are you in?

[ecstatic]

Poll question: Just a simple idea. Are you in?

Let's try something different this time, at least for the next two years.

Let's all try to be united and cheerlead our President, congress people and Senators.

No more long screeds about how they betrayed us. Liberals have tried that approach for decades and the result has been Reagan and Bush. Next time it could be Palin or worse.

Let's just try this for two years. If it doesn't work and in 2 years we find out we really were betrayed, then we can go back on the attack.

Are you in?

[polichick]

1. No thanks - too often cheerleaders just block the view of the game...

And seeing clearly what's happening on the field is far too important in this game.

[jpgray]

2. The Tinkerbell theory of electoral success?

Just clap your hands? Takes a bit more than that.

[blondeatlast]

3. Geezuz--I'm considered a cheerleader and I LOATHE this idea.

I voted no, but would have preferred a NO FUCKING WAY option.

[deutsey]

4. I say we start organizing to fight corporate power, which was the real winner yesterday. n/t

[crazylikafox]

9. bingo

[GreenPartyVoter]

14. +1

[nadinbrzezinski]

17. You get it

[frazzled]

5. Or, we could ...

dress up as Dolly Madison and Benjamin Franklin and hold up misspelled signs that say "We want our HOUSE back!" and "Stop shredding the Constitution, Boehner"!

It seemed to work for the Tea Partiers.

I'm sort of opting for cultivating my own garden.

[LittleBlue]

6. Nope

Sorry

[kick-ass-bob]

7. No. I say we build our own progressive unit on the left of the party

so we can rebrand Dems into what they should be. Follow the tea party example - without the idiocy.

[deutsey]

10. Yes!

:thumbsup:

[polichick]

13. It's either that or support the progressive movement that will replace the party...

...because we WILL become a more progressive country - it's just that the how of it is unknown right now.

[kick-ass-bob]

16. My point is that it is hard to build a replacement party

as an actual 3rd party. Build it to the left of the Dogs, and then take over the existing party (eventually).

[polichick]

19. That's what we've been trying to do for decades - it's still possible...

...but the party is really polluted with DLC/corporate Dems.

[kick-ass-bob]

24. true. But what the hell are teabaggers?

It's really just the already existing right wing of the Republican party. They've been trying to do the same thing for years, but it took coordination (of some sort) to actually move it.

[polichick]

26. What it seems to have taken is a massive corporate machine...

...getting behind them and using them to regain Republican power - and, thus, corporate power.

[upi402]

31. ibtl

they don't like the implication that there's a problem with the Democratic Party here. I've had threads locked, trying to discuss solutions here.

So, we're to be loyal to a party that's no longer there, I guess.

[ChiciB1]

44. Where Do I Sign Up?? For Those Of Us Who Are Willing To Stand Our

ground, even if it stops progress for Repukes, it's no worse than what they've done. And they are getting ALL THE PRAISE for STANDING up to Big Government or something!! Actually, they will try to screw us every which way to Sunday, and wake up Monday morning and get out the LONG KNIVES!

I've had it with the namby-pamby crap. When you were growing up and the bully started to push you around, did you run away with your tail between your legs, or did you learn to STAND UP FOR YOURSELF??

Bullies almost ALWAYS remain bullies, but those they bully can change and make them move on to another target. Or another situation they can BULLY!

JMHO!

[Lucian]

8. I'm not a cheerleader.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

11. Why not just get a lobotomy? It might reduce stress.

[quinnox]

12. Screw it, make a super pro-Obama forum

Where absolutely no criticism or bad things are tolerated about Obama or the Democratic party. But leave GD alone.

[BeFree]

15. heh

So far I see a "screw you Obama" tsunami in your poll.

Heh, that's a bad attitude and doomed to kill us off altogether.

[TexasObserver]

18. No, and please don't ever ask that again.

I was an advocate of "save it until after the election" for the past two months, but now is the time to discuss in details all the huge mistakes the president and congressional Democrats made. They mainly made the mistake of being too timid, too accommodating, and too quick to abandon key parts of our program.

[End Of The Road]

20. Yes, we'll call ourselves the Pollyanna Party! nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

21. Sorry, Cult of Personality was oh so much 1930s

or 2000s if you were a Bush cultist.

They will get praise when deserved and they will get scorn when deserved.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

22. Holding public servants accountable is the responisibily of the citizenry.

Giving them a free pass for the fuck-ups isn't.

[kenny blankenship]

23. It's time to ask the Party if THEY'RE in

Because they spent the last two years acting like all they want is for everything to go back to just the way it was in 2007 - when the way it was in 2007 caused the Great Meltdown of 2008. The way it was in 2007 was already horrible for Democratic constituencies. I voted Democratic this time, but it's the LAST time if they don't drop their Pre-financial-9/11 mindset. And I'm not waiting two years. Nostalgia for the way things were pre-Crash is nowhere near good enough.

[PBass]

25. Hell no, and your basic premise doesn't hold water...

that Democrats win when we shake our pom-poms harder.

Umm, no.

[hayu_lol]

32. The majority of progressives, as demonstrated on these boards...

are the Pollyanna left of the Party. The central core(not the right)of the party is LIBERAL. The Party platform is LIBERAL.

The far left of the party consists of almost individual single issue causes.

We must return to the core of the party and become the LIBERALS that we once were.

Argue the point? Fine. But Pollyanna hasn't done much for any of us has it.

[upi402]

27. LET'S TRY OPPOSING CORPORATISM, NOT APPEASING IT.

WTF? -let's try tucking nuts and clucking for just TWO MORE YEARS?


"Yay! We are dums"
Nope, this chicken don't love Col. Sanders. That's been tried for decades.


LET'S TRY OPPOSING CORPORATISM, NOT APPEASING IT.

[woo me with science]

28. Cool! I'm in!

Now, we will need to redesign DU for this. Some of the forums can simply be renamed:

General Cheers and Accolades

General Cheers and Accolades: Presidential

Instead of "The Lounge," how about "The Audience"? Then we can all sit and applaud!

The topic forums will need to be redone also. In order to reduce division, we will need topics that everyone can agree on and enjoy. We could have a lot of different forums about things we enjoy about President Obama and the Congress. Maybe a forum for their clothes and another for the pretty state flags. People might disagree about those things, though. It would probably be easiest to consolidate them all into one big forum about kittens.

Of course, more mods will have to be hired to remove any post that is not about cheerleading or kittens.

This is a great idea! :headbang: :fistbump:

[Lucky 13]

29. In other words, try not to think for ourselves.

The problem isn't that the citizenry didn't cheerlead enough. The problem is we weren't given enough to cheer about.

Dissent is Patriotic. Was true 8 years ago, 4 years ago, and today.

[kctim]

30. Thats silly

Democrats of all stripes should always speak up for themselves. That is why we are Democrats.

[notesdev]

33. if you haven't figured it out by now

two more years isn't going to provide any more obvious clues

[HughMoran]

34. I voted no.

And this is what some here call me ->

[metapunditedgy]

35. Can we agree that we all unite behind Congressman Kucinich? Or were you suggesting

a more corporate-friendly figure to unite behind?

[HughMoran]

36. lol

:rofl:

[Naturyl]

40. Count me in on that one.

Now there's somebody worth mindlessly cheerleading for. :)

Bernie Sanders will work, too. And Grayson, if he had won.

[lumberjack_jeff]

37. They don't make cheerleader uniforms in my size.

I'm with Cenk. Republicans do what they do - they're scorpions. I have expectations of democrats that have not been met. The "more compromise" lesson that they've drawn from this election proves that they haven't gotten their asses kicked enough.

Primaries, primaries, primaries.

[Subdivisions]

38. How about no. Indeed, how about centrist conserva-dems get in the

back seat and be quiet.

[Naturyl]

39. Nope, count me out. Obama himself asked us

To hold his feet to the fire. I intend to take him up on it.

[TornadoTN]

41. L - O - EFFIN' L - This is priceless

Yeah, lets just make our transformation into the minor league of the GOP complete.


RAH RAH RAH RAH ! WE CAN DO NO WRONG! LEAD US OFF THE CLIFF!

[yurbud]

42. should we close our eyes, click our ruby slippers together & say ''There's no place like home" too?

[datasuspect]

43. we should all read Mein Kampf, enlightenment era philosophers, some history, and stuff about

marketing.

then organize at a local level.

then amass several billion dollars.

then become a player at the big table

then PROFIT!!!!