White progressive analysis of politics is fundamentally broken.

[Kentonio]

100. Is this the plan, really?

We're going to go into broke ass regions of the country that are in many cases 90-95% white and suffering under terrible levels of unemployment and poverty and tell them that all their problems come from racism?

Here of all places we should ALL be able to agree that racism is one of the most pernicious and harmful issues scarring the soul of America, that crushes opportunity, destroys futures and warps the very basic fabric of society. As a party we need to fight against it tooth and nail everywhere it raises its vile, ugly head.

But if we want to win elections, our platform cannot be one where racism is the one big topic. Not today in an America where poor people are so downtrodden and abandoned by the political process that they were willing to vote for Donald fucking Trump as President of the United States of America.

Racial justice and equality should ALWAYS be one of our core pillars, but never ever forget that all politics is local. For a vast number of Americans the problems of race are not on their daily radar despite how much they should be. Their problems are economic first and foremost, and unless we have a cast iron economic plan to help the worst off then they will not vote for us, simple as that.

This party needs a reality check, unless we win we achieve nothing. Which is better? To run chiefly on racial equality and justice and lose, allowing the GOP scum to do even more terrible damage to racial equality and justice or to run heavily on the economy and then once in power fight tooth and nail to improve those racial problems with every tool at our disposal?