Demanding the party do something? Pay attention.

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25. they are doing what they were sent there for

...when the votes are being cast, they will ostensibly represent the people who sent them there.

What the _ else do you think they are able to do other than organize against what the majority intends to do?

I don't understand cynicism like this at all, especially when voters don't give our party the numbers they need to do more than just vote in the minority and talk.

Then we get posts ridiculing them for it. Hell, elect more Democrats if you want them to be in a position to do more than just point at what republicans are doing.

These Democrats each spelled out their own priorities for the nation in these conferences, so, I'm going to guess you didn't watch them.

You should watch each of these, and organize your own advocacy around the things they say they support. Then do more than just posit that the party out of power has some magical method to enact legislation, as if they had some fantastical way to subvert the votes of a majority of republicans.

It's not a serious argument and time shouldn't be wasted on such misinformed cynicism.

You want to protest? That couldn't be more your responsibility. The idea of someone sitting at home yelling at the Congress to organize them to protest is really something.

These people are there to legislate, and they are telling us exactly how they intend to do that job we sent them there to effect. At the very least, take heed of what they say before imposing expectations on them that they aren't in any way in a position to manage or control.

This isn't just about outside agitation. It's a challenge to effect legislative action from their seats at the table; the very purpose of protests.

My view is there are too many people criticizing our ineffective majorities and even or minorities for the consequences of the dearth of Democrats we elect. You just have to wonder what is the expected result of that failure?

I mean, one poster made this broad judgment of the party based on a vote they disagree made by a fraction of the Democrats in Congress; just like this complaint that they didn't begin their term with calls for protest outside of the institution in which they're supposed to be managing the people's business.

We really need to address our legislators where Congress actually stands, much more than where we haplessly wish it would be if we held the majority.