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In reply to the discussion: Keith Ellison: [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)About the tactics used.
The campaign for Tom should JUST have been a campaign FOR Tom.
I wouldn't have said what Bernie said, for the record.
If Keith had won, he would have reached out to Tom and to those who supported Tom with the exact same degree of magnanimity that Tom showed to Keith. Their both personally decent stand-up folks.
An Ellison leadership victory would have been about uniting the progressive forces...ending the artificially created divide between "social justice" and "economic justice" supporters(two groups that, in reality, agree with each other about 95% of the time), and about augmenting the crucial social justice focus with an economic justice focus designed to turn the working and kept-from-working poor of all ages from nonvoters into voters. This can be done quite easily, and without betraying or abandoning anyone or anything.
It would not have been about disempowering or excluding any current Democratic voting blocs.
Hopefully, Tom and Keith will work together for the changes we need. Preserving the status quo in the party is not an option.