Leaderless on the left

Gary Younge of the U.K. Guardian contemplates the weaknesses of Left, but realizes the tipping point. You would think it was time for the Democrats to wake up and start showing their leadership. Oh, it's there - they just don't know how to use it. It is like they are in a slumber, a dead space - stuck, if you will, in suspended animation. The GOP has stupefied them - their moves and ideas. It is scary. It takes a few good citizens to put themselves on the line and sacrifice what it left to push the so-called leaders into action. Will they listen? Can somebody tell me when a Congressperson or Senator will actually listen to his or her constituency?

Younge's conclusion is something to think about:

Sheehan has revealed both the strength and the weakness of the left. We have a political agenda that can command considerable mainstream support; yet we do not have a political leadership willing or able to articulate those agendas. We wield political influence; we lack legislative power.

Democracy is about power to the people and representation of that power in the most powerful legislative body on Earth. There is a war on and people are dying for fictional reasons - there is no time for mediocrity...