[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I would say it goes a little beyond that. It is not enough to maintain we have to grow. The last election was not so much, "the base did not turn out" because the base did for the most part.

Where we lost was that we were so busy squabbling with each other that we totally neglected to outreach for those who could be swayed to our POV. In fact in many cases outreach of any type was labeled "Pandering" and cause for more squabbling. We have to stop doing this.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Maybe.. I'll read that again tomorrow, goodnight HTB!! :)

[NicknamedBob]

We need to stop beating ourselves up over the last election.

Nobody "won" it.

The sad truth is that, in a two-party system, the only way to show your displeasure with the party in power for their malfeasance is to vote in the other party, even if they are potentially worse.

We all need to digest that, and then prepare to move on to putting together the program that will solve our problems better than simply turning over all power, all decision-making, and all resources to a central government.