2016 Postmortem

Ken Burch

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7. We can reach out to working people without abandoning our commitment

Sat Dec 17, 2016, 11:41 PM

Dec 2016

to fighting racism, sexism, and other forms of social oppression.

The key is creating a politics that says to as many people who see themselves on the outside as possible "you will gain if you vote for us-we won't abandon anyone who votes for us now to GET your votes, but if you will stand with us in what we fight for already, we will stand with you and fight for you as well".

Mainly, it means telling corporate donors to go to hell, because their money doesn't help us and the limitations they impose on our program force us to not fight for a lot of those we SHOULD be fighting for...the poor and the powerless.

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Time for the Democrats to stop catering to the [View all] ghostsinthemachine Dec 2016 OP

Working class people manav95 Dec 2016 #1

When you say "identity politics nonsense", whose "identity" are you talking about? Since you chose.. Tarheel_Dem Dec 2016 #2

I get what they're saying Dem2 Dec 2016 #4

May not seem helpful from the standpoint of a white person. It's quite important to me as a POC. Tarheel_Dem Dec 2016 #6

We can reach out to working people without abandoning our commitment Ken Burch Dec 2016 #7

So we are a "party of the ppl" that does NOT include ppl of color or women, manav95? Hekate Dec 2016 #8

GOPs lost congressional seats and the popular vote, but the Dems have to tear up the playbook Kolesar Dec 2016 #3

lol when does that class get any attention? treestar Dec 2016 #5

Clinton won among the working class. Clinton won among the working class. Garrett78 Dec 2016 #9

Ye gods. Our Democratic presidential candidate got 3,000,000 more votes than the GOP candidate Hekate Dec 2016 #10