> We're kind of waiting for some national movement to take hold, but where are the Democrats? If you are waiting for a national movement, its not going to happ

> We're kind of waiting for some national movement to take hold, but where are the Democrats? If you are waiting for a national movement, its not going to happen. If you want it to happen, you have to get out and make it. The major political parties are big tent electoral coalitions, actual movements come from other places (whether existing organized groups or new emerging networks) and then gain the strnegth to be adopted by one or the other party, they don't usually come from the party leadership or committees, which are not structured around creating or nurturing broad social movements.