It is not as frustrating as it *seems* - I don't want to come across as whining. I really am *stumped* on how to address this, but it isn't really new. I am very much accustomed to how this functions.

I do think we have to *understand* how it works though, as a party, before we can address it and I think the people best equipped to understand how it works are the people who are surrounded by it.

See - *that* is frustrating -- watching talking heads and members of one's own party espousing a belief or a plan of action that you - a person embedded in the issue at hand - *know* will not work or is incorrect.