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In reply to the discussion: I'm from the south. [View all]YoungDemCA
(5,714 posts)Voting for the Democrats?
Maybe if more Democrats spent time, effort, and resources into talking to people in the South and elsewhere, listening to their grievances and concerns, making the effort to empathize with their situations and help each other to see the "big picture" of things like racism, sexism, homophobia, and social inequality in general (that these things do have adverse effects on real people, that social stratification and inequality are not merely dry academic terms)....
Maybe also making it absolutely clear, by ACTIONS as well as by words, that the Democratic Party is on their side, Rather than taking the votes of ordinary, working people and their families for granted....or taking it for granted that the Democratic Party's message has been made clear.
Local politics would be incredibly important to start with.
I tell you this, Jimmy Carter in 1976, Bill Clinton in 1992 and 1996, and Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012 didn't win their elections or popular support by taking people's votes for granted. Nor did they win by writing off whole segments of the electorate or population.