There is the old saw that conservatives will march in lock step liek Nazis, while tryign to get liverals to work togther is like trying to herd cats. it refers to hwo conservatives don't really do much thinking but let others think for them, whiel liberals tend to all think for themselves and thus although they may have similiar ideas, they have a lot fo small disagreements which prevents them from ever gettign all that much done.

I do agree that peopel who don't vote are very much to blame for the government we end up with. Liberals beign less fearful and easy going are nto as l9ikeloy to vote as conservatives who are more afrtaid to not vote. IOt is a bit irresponsible on the part of the liberals who dont' vote, but I dotn' think it is fair to blame all liberals for the behavior of just some.

The Democrats need to build up a core of voters. The Republicans have, Xtians, military, business owners, upper middle class, healthcare institution people, (doctors) and police as their main voting blocs. What do the Democrats have to appeal to for voting blocs? That's where the problem lies.

Start on the local level and build the party through that kind of change. Also understand that not voting is way worse than voting for the worst of two candidates. The power is with the people. The people refuse to use it.

I think I understand your comment. Here in Florida there are over 500,000 more Democrats than Republicans. Yet both Florida houses and the governor are controlled by Republicans. Democrats don't vote. I used to work the polls at my last residence. I worked about 10 years. It always amazed me that in my county the beach precincts where the rich people lived always had a greater percentage of votes tallied than the precincts where the poor and middle class lived.

I agree. There was a lot of trash talking last election about how those who went 3rd party ruined things... but when you look at the numbers, they make up something like 3%. Those who were eligible but did not vote is something like 46%, and on the left more like 60%. The Right didn't "Win", the masses forfeited.