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[rivka]

I don't even want to look at the news today.

I am burned out. I am tired of being a member of a party that is so totally fucking incompetent at standing up for itself. We pissed away the opportunity handed us in the 2008 election. We were unable or unwilling to make use of the mandate we had. We spent two years bending over backward trying not to offend anyone, knuckling under to the fake offense generated by the right-wing media, and utterly failing to make our case, in anything approaching a compelling way, to the American people.

I. Am. Tired.

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[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

I wish I had a fully constructed moral position on this. I did NO work on the campaigns this year, and contributed only very small amounts of money (I think one donation, and I think it was to the candidate for the House in a neighboring district who called and asked me personally to give).

Instead, I told the endless series of professional fund-raisers and committed volunteers that I wasn't giving the the DCCC or the DSCC or the candidates because they weren't standing up for liberal values, and had wasted their majority opportunities to legislate for clean water, wholesome food, and energy independence.

It's easy to say that it isn't my actual job to do this work, and it is the job of my elected officials. But I have a part in our democracy as much as everyone else, and I did nothing to help. I thought at the time that I was making an important point. Maybe I was. I don't know.

K.