What Leah Said About 2020

[EffieBlack]

I don't have a candidate yet; waiting for the field to settle AND I need to do some homework on their positions.

That said, here are some non-starters:
1. non Democrats. You wanna lead the Party, you gotta be a member of the Party. Period. The End.
2. candidates who've ever uttered a sentence that includes the phrase or sentiment: Hillary Clinton lost because she didn't talk to white working class voters.
3. candidates who announce a non-representative senior staff. I mean representative of the people whose votes make up the Democratic party. After all, personnel is policy. PS: diversity means more than white women.
4. candidates with no evidence of a race / sex analysis in their background
5. candidates with bad, unrepentant race /sex analysis in their background
6. candidates who release "what's on my spotify" lists that include any music by RKelly.

I'll be skipping right on past these folks.

#WhatLeahSaidAbout2020

[guillaumeb]

1. Recommended.

4. candidates with no evidence of a race / sex analysis in their background

Sanders' main weakness, in my view, was his singular focus on class analysis while ignoring that racism and misogyny are foundational to US capitalism.

[ProudLib72]

2. Agreed with #3

Our Revolution keeps consultant who made anti-immigrant comments https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/22/our-revolution-sanders-turner-figaro-603410

Nina Turner: It Is Not Our Job to Fit Into the Democratic Establishment https://www.thenation.com/article/nina-turner-it-is-not-our-job-to-fit-into-the-democratic-establishment/

CM: Will the group be endorsing non-Democrats?

NT: You know what, yes. We are open to it. And for me, I’ve also heard the senator say this lately too: Let’s put the political affiliation to the side. If there is a Republican or a Libertarian or Green Party person that believes in Medicare for all, then that’s our kind of person. If there’s somebody that believes that Citizens United needs to be overturned, that we need the 28th amendment to the Constitution that declares that money, corporate money, is not speech and that corporations should not have more speech than Mrs. Johnson down the street and Mr. Gonzalez around the corner, then that’s our kind of people.

I recall a time when people were trying to divorce Bernie from Our Revolution, saying they were two completely separate entities. Not buying that one bit!