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In reply to the discussion: How many DUers are old enough to have experienced our bad losses? [View all]MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)My biggest issue is taking the long view to moving this nation to the left. We can move to a very liberal nation, but it will take decades. The Right wing started after their defeat in 1964 and it took them until now to get us where we currently are.
We're getting close to us being too late for the next ten years, though. The worst thing about the left is they tend to attract voters for president with little care for the bottom level races, and this is a major problem because local and state level elections are far more important in the long term.
The Republicans are way ahead of us in this. They control too many states and the party that controls the states, controls the Congressional delegation. Absolute control of the Congressional delegation comes once every decade, and 2020 is our next big shot. We need to set ourselves up next year, and GROW in 2018 in order to make 2020 anything near what we need for a major shift to the left.
Until we move things leftward at the lower levels, it is impossible to have a president more liberal than Barack Obama. Since he's the most liberal president in my lifetime, that says a lot.