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In reply to the discussion: If HRC is nominated WITHOUT a primary challenge: [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)But why assume the ONLY way we can stop that is to stay with deferential, half-conservative path-of-least-resistance politics?
Or by turning labor and the poor into collective human sacrifices to the God of "Benign Neglect".
Why assume we can only win if we let Wall Street and Fox News set the terms of debate(which is what nominating HRC and "staying the course" means)?
Do you really believe we CAN'T win the arguments?
Do you really buy into the Joe Klein "This is a center-right country" myth?
That's just defeatist.
If we defend social rights, workers and fight for the poor, we can still prevail and we can STILL nominate Supreme Court justices.
We don't have to barter our dreams to do that.
Nor do we have to assume that the discussion is over on economics and foreign polilcy and that we have to bathe in ugliness and human gore just to scrape into the White House.
There are more people below than above. Mobilize them and we win. Make them care and earn their trust and we can win in a landslide.
Enough already with shame-based politics.