I spent over 10 years working for one of the most liberal House members of the last 50 years — Rush…

I spent over 10 years working for one of the most liberal House members of the last 50 years — Rush Holt of New Jersey. What that experienced reinforced for me is that, to use the old cliché, “Democracy is not a spectator sport.” Online petitions don’t threaten politicians. Nasty tweets or FB post are at best an annoyance to them. You want to force them to make the change you seek? Do the following: 1) raise money to run ads (physical & digital) in their districts; 2) create & nurture real electorally-focused, issued-grounded, remorselessly active opposition groups in their districts — the kind from which real, viable primary opponents can arise; and 3) never, ever go away because the fight to advance the frontiers of human freedom is not an end state, it’s a never-ending political evolutionary struggle.