General Discussion

And maybe there are some people who need her storytelling to understand what is happening to this country. I hope she can recruit more people to get into the game, so to speak.

But that is not our big problem, IMHO. Our big problem is that Dems have not pursued any big ideas for over 50 years, and tend to approach every new Republican move to insanity with "OK, we can't go to your extremes, so we'll only meet you at the halfway insane point." Then rinse and repeat, and it continues to shift the Overton Window farther and farther to the right.

Personally, I don't think we need rational, academic voices like Rachel's at the forefront. We have rationalized and normalized every step of the way, and now we have lost everything. We need bold leaders who are not afraid to advance a set of bold, populist ideas and fight for them tooth and nail.

What I am coming to is, what do you expect her to do the next 100 days? Tell more stories?

To heck with that. We need a revolution, not a rationalization. We need action, not understanding.

I know many people will feel comforted to have Rachel to lean on 5 days a weak. This is not a time to feel comfortable. This is a time to fight like hell, and I don't expect to hear any of that from MSNBC. That's not why Comcast keeps them around. Quite the opposite.