The situation is discouraging. "Our side," for complicated reasons, isn't getting out there in significant numbers. Hasn't really, since many thousands of Obama's supporters rejoiced on The Mall in DC on election night 2008. And the MILLIONS who showed up for his inauguration the following January. I think it has to do partially with what a friend of mine recently said - "Among Amerikans, hope has been mostly killed." There's also very much plain old complacency on the part of a lot of progressives now that Barack Obama is President.
The only thing I would admire the "Tea Baggers" for would be the impressive turnout for their rallies last year, despite the fact their movement is filled to the brim with imbeciles. But I know better. Fact is, it's a lot easier to produce massive rallies when you have Dick Armey's "Freedom Works" providing literally millions of dollars. For buses, for telephone lines, for all sorts of costs incurred when you organize masses of idiots who can't even coherently express their "views."
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