General Discussion

The question is more urgent than ever - "If not now, when?!"

And we're just getting these constant signals that when is never coming. It's a common enough feeling (I'm gay and have put up with this "not now" shit my whole life). But to really seal in that feeling in people that "When will be never" can be devastating to our electoral chances. Enthusiasm is a thing, whether people want to acknowledge that or not.

So this posture that exists solely to perpetually sap enthusiasm from current and potential future Democratic voters seems so illogical.

We hear it from this quarter all the time. "If people had voted the right way . . ." Great. That's hindsight. What will we do to help encourage them to vote for us tomorrow? "What if we completely sapped their will by signalling we will provide only the limpest of opposition?"

Brilliant! A tactic only a professional consultant could love.