Today always seems unique and in many ways every day is totally different from every other "day" since the Big Bang. But there are similarities as history repeats itself as farce over and over again.

1. Do campaign stuff YOU like the most / hate the least. Given that campaign stuff is phonebank, or doorbell, or rah-rah sign wave, or write letters, or ...

Make up your mind and do it.

2. You must get to know your neighbors. In my home city of Seattle, WA. & in many states, the smallest political unit is the precinct. Work with neighbors on campaign stuff who like what you like / hate the least what you hate the least.

Howdy folks! It's been a while since I've written much of anything. Since the election, I've been pretty much dealing with the anger and disgust at what has happened.

I've read a lot of election post-mortems and proposals for how left/progressive people should move forward in the current political climate.

It appears that there is a very real political realignment going on now. On the right, there is a lot of energy, enough to elect somebody who promised to pay attention to the 99% (though seems quite unlikely to do anything useful for them). On the left, there is energy, but it is (as usual) being co-opted by the Democrat party and being channeled into a fake resistance movement which is an attempt to associate electing corporate democrats and preserving Obama's neoliberal "achievements" as real change that will help the 99%. The establishment Democrats at the head of this fake resistance have no intention of making actual change.

If left/progressives don't organize behind an agenda and force the Democrats to swallow it, the "resistance" will fizzle out into support for more of the same, sorry, "pragmatic" corporate crap that establishment Democrats have been shovelling out for decades and the right will own the nation's politics - perhaps even awarding them the preponderance of states (they are one state shy now) to amend the constitution or call a constitutional convention.

The stakes are a lot higher than most people realize and the corporate donors behind both parties would be delighted by an opportunity to modify the constitution to more fully lock down the prerogatives of the 1%.

1. Do campaign stuff YOU like the most / hate the least.

2. You GOTTA get to know your neighbors. In my home city of Seattle, WA. & in many states, the smallest political unit is the precinct. Work with neighbors on campaign stuff who like what you like / hate the least what you hate the least.

3. DO NOT help any campaign, or political party, or union, or anything which does NOT help you and your neighbors in your precincts.