A little social compact I imagine should exist is that when powerful people implore normal people to put in time and money to donate, work, and vote in elections, they should actually do something with the power they are given.
I wrote "something." I don't expect them to fully implement the Atrios Agenda. I just really hate the buck passing Democrats do. The "Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee is just a smol bean with no power, someone else should do something" type stuff.