(This is Cross-posted from Daily Kos; I thought some people here might be interested in it. It’s got more than the Recommended Daily Allowance of meta. I didn’t bother rewriting it here; I think y’all can figure out that I’m not talking about this site. If that really bothers people, please let me know and I’ll keep it in mind when I think about cross-posting.)
Every once in a while in my more than three years here I have felt the need to compose a rant against my fellow members of this site that will pretty much ensure I don’t get invited to any good cocktail parties. Never more so than tonight.
This, at its best — including leading up to last month — has been a site of political actors. Leading up to tonight, it was a site of political observers. A site not of people trying to change the system, but of posers who want to chatter on about change.
If Paul Carmouche loses in LA-04 — and I doubt that either provisional ballots nor a recount will reverse a 356-vote, .038% margin, unless it turns out that the last few come-from-behind votes were obtained by fraud — then it was entirely foreseeable and entirely preventable.
We simply had to choose to act. We chose not to act. We should be ashamed.
We seem to have forgotten what this site is about.