WHY we need DU, and WHAT we can do with it to help save America!
I wrote this in another thread Wanted more of our DU brothers and sisters to see it.
A place like this is a terrific resource! A clearinghouse for information.
And for information-sharing.
We should be building a library of resources. Names. Groups. Experts in strategy and tactics. Reference material. Info on relevant organizations, where they are, and how to contact them. Friendliest in Congress and state governments and their staffers. A guide to counties: where the friendliest are in enemy territory and what the prospects are for friendly takeovers. Where the operatives are. Any underlings that can be groomed to further greatness.
The bad guys have been smart and shrewd. They’ve spent years - DECADES - putting stuff like this together, and establishing bulwarks in every state. We haven’t invested either time OR funding to ANY of this!!! All our leaders have been doing is working from race to race, clomping along with only myopic, temporary goals. NOTHING long-term. Maybe because our side has spent DECADES thinking “oh, it’ll be okay.”
“Nothing’s gonna happen.”
“Coast is clear.”
“They can’t do anything about it.”
“They’re not gonna do anything about it.”
“We’ve got this.”
“No muss no fuss. It’s already handled”
And on and on, or as a deejay friend of mine used to call it: “yawn and yawn.”
Our side has NEVER learned OR realized that it’s not enough to win the territory.
That territory has to be DEFENDED. AFTER you’ve won it. Night and day! Day and night! Around the clock! Forever! However long the enemy remains at the door, on the prowl, always ready to attack.
And boy oh boy did the bad guys work like fiends to build that infrastructure that includes at the very least Pox Noise, and all the many-headed serpents around it.
Are WE EVER gonna wise up about this ( she wailed, while banging her head against the wall in utter frustration)?????????
Feedback and comment GREATLY appreciated.
Originally posted here:
Sheldon Whitehouse: 'There is a plan, and this is just part of it.'
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=16680308
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If only there were a Dem equivalent of the Faux Noise group. I'd like to think that we are a resource for the liberal message and I hope our info and posts are being archived for the future. There's so much out there I don't think DU or any other format can have it all.
We need to share and save bookmarks of everything that could possibly be of use in the future. I use the Advanced Search a lot and it has been very helpful in finding what we do have on file.
A good place to start curating information (as in not opinions), imo, is from General Discussion and state sub-forums.
How this exists in the Underground is the question.
Should DU have libraries -- say,
Constitutional Law Library,
Primary and General Election Library,
Battleground States Library,
Issues Library,
Timeline Library,
History Library,
Media Bias Library
-- as sub-forums with information links?
What each might list is a whole other brainstorm, right?
I ask about a library framework, because when I go to OnTheIssues.com, they only have records of votes up to 2020, which, being outdated, is lame as hell.
Or we could call it the DU Clearinghouse with information sections, one being about all things Democratic.
I'm just suggesting, of course, because this is a huge country to try to influence, but what's an Underground for if not a place where we can spread our links; history about how the blue wave won in 2018; arguments, logic. Even if it's among ourselves at first, our quick reference framework can sharpen us and help us have some ripple effect as digital and real world participants.
I'm aiming at getting to work with Democrats here in Florida, and I'd love to use some clearinghouse framework here, and also have more FL Democrats join DU.
Doing something is always better than doing nothing. So good on you! 
Democracy won't save itself. 
