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["Marie McHarry" <mmcharry AT gmail.com>]

On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Bob McAlister <bobmcalister AT gmail.com> wrote:
> there will be blood in the streets when the average american finally decides
> that enough is enough ...and it hasnt reached that point yet.
>
> but it isnt that far away either....people , like me , dont know HOW to get
> involved in the process...have any of you tried to go out and get involved
> in the local politics...?  there is a wall there that has been built to keep
> us out while we have been busy keeping the machine working...

Read Thomas Frank's _What's the Matter With Kansas_. It explains in
painful detail how the fundamentalist Christians overtook a moderate
Republican party. You go to local party meetings, preferably with a
friend or two who agrees with you, and you influence the group from
there. The Democrats have finally taken that lesson to heart, and if
Democrats win, it will be because of a good ground game and local
participation. It doesn't matter which party you pick, but staying at
home and whining won't affect anything, and I doubt that a bunch of
whiners will take to the streets.

Marie