Okay. It’s the day after Labor Day. It’s the official start of the midterm campaign. I asked people to get serious about the midterms in early July, but no one can deny that it is campaign season now. If you’ve been reading this site you don’t need me to tell you what kind of hell this country is going to face if the Republicans do as well as currently predicted in the midterm elections. If you haven’t already, go to Organizing for America and register with them. They will link you up with all the other motivated organizers in your community. They will put you to work where you can make a difference. If you’re not motivated, get motivated. The worst thing that can happen is that you make a lot of good friends. This isn’t pattycake. The right-wing in this country is incredibly aggressive, well-funded, and malevolent. If you are reading this, you were alive and conscious from 2001-2009, and you saw what happened to our country. Well, the new breed of Republican is more conservative that the old. If we don’t beat back a slew of whack-a-doodle Senate candidates, we can forget about confirming another judge. I am not kidding about that. That is not hyperbole.
I’ve been frustrated with a lack of focus on the main threat to our country. I’ve been writing about my frustrations for a long time. But it’s indisputably election season now. There are no more excuses. It’s admirable and necessary to lobby the Democrats and the White House for progressive policies, but lobbying season is over. It’s time to pick up the banner and fight against this wave of insanity that is building up and threatening to swamp us all.
Let me make this clear. In the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal: poll:
Among all registered voters…both parties are tied on the generic ballot, 43 percent to 43 percent, suggesting that Democrats could potentially blunt GOP gains in November with high turnout at the polls.
Got that?
But…
With the Labor Day holiday marking the traditional starting point of the campaign season, Republicans have a nine-point edge among those considered likely voters, plus a near 20-point lead among those expressing the highest amount of interest in the midterms.
You have to stop assigning blame and take your responsibilities seriously. Get in touch with OFA and get to work. The network is in place to get our vote out. It just needs people to help execute the plan. You can do something, or you can sit around moping while Rand Paul, Sharron Angle, Ken Buck, Pat Toomey, and a bunch of other radicals get elected to the Senate and put an end to the process of legislating in our country. House members need help, too, unless you want to sit back passively while John Boehner becomes Speaker and a bunch of aggressively stupid and venal people take over the lower chamber’s committee chairs.
