(I’ll come back and clean this up later, but I have to go cook now)

Although I don’t live in the Beltway anymore, I still correspond with friends and progressives there regularly. It’s frustrating, because I never quite adopted that Beltway mindset; too much about it reminded me of the Queer Clubbing circuit to make me comfortable (that is, clubbing drama is fine in a club, but not in national politics). But in the spirit of “never give in, never surrender,” let me see if I can recap the major points in the argument/perspective that I hold as a progressive.

1. The purpose of electing Democrats and keeping them in the majority is not so that elected Democrats can stay in their jobs forever.  Read more