"Today we lost. Tomorrow we will be back. Someday we will win."

brent budowsky in the huffpo...

Among many people, especially young people, there is sadness, outrage and anger that those they elected to Congress did not wage the fight and honor the election. There is a danger that young people conclude that elections don't matter.

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I appeal to young people to keep the faith, make a stand, and continue the hard fight that we will ultimately win, because 70 percent of Americans are with us.

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Today we lost.

Tomorrow we will be back.

Someday we will win.

brent... i turn 60 this december... i have been working, watching, and waiting my entire life for the kinds of major changes that we so desperately need in our system to come about... to be sure, the past 6 1/2 years have been particularly appalling as we watch the constitutional foundations of our republic under relentless assault, but it didn't begin with the 12 december 2000 scotus decision, not by a long shot...

sadness, outrage and anger don't begin to describe the intensity with which i view our current situation... the democratic performance on the war funding bill is only one in a long series of "last straws..." for quite some time, i have been avoiding the belief that the only way to accomplish needed change in this country was to take to the streets... now, i'm convinced it may indeed be the only way...

if a real leader stepped forward, one with access to a national platform, one with credibility, one untainted by the whirling cesspool that is our elected leadership today, who clearly identified the constitutional crisis we are experiencing and called us to action, my bags would be packed in a new york minute... while i have no intention whatsoever of giving up the fight, "someday we will win" is empty rhetoric that i have spent my life believing... i don't believe it any more... sorry...

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