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In reply to the discussion: In 18 years since Naders run, what has been accomplished by attacking the Dem party from the left? [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)If you actually had an argument against what I've said, you would make it.
What is so amusing about the ideas(none of which are solely supported by me)that I talk about?
Single-payer has strong public support in the country-there's no conflict between supporting single-payer as a long-term goal and working to defend the ACA in the present-we are equally committed to doing that.
So does free college-an idea that benefits the entire Democratic base.
So does reducing corporate control over politics, which has to happen if any proposals that actually help the Democratic base are ever to be adopted.
Those ideas weren't actually rejected...a lot of last year's HRC supporters back them...many were accepted by her when she was nominated.
Had she campaigned in the fall by referencing those ideas, we'd have carried the Upper Midwest and not lost any votes anywhere. Instead, those ideas weren't mentioned...even in states where the other candidate did well in the primaries and where it was desperately important to make sure supporters of that candidate were reminded that what they'd done wasn't a total failure and a waste of time, and that this party was going to be a place where they could work for what they cared about.
I'm for social justice AND economic justice(and am just as committed as you are to fighting against voter suppression, as you know full well)...those causes that are distinct, yet related, and they are never in conflict.
It's sad that you think working for a better country and a better world is "amusing".
It's sad that you seem to be so irrationally bitter about people who did nothing you have any reason to be angry about and who weren't responsible for what happened in November.
Please stop refighting the past and please stop fighting to preserve divisions at a time when we need to heal them.
And I say all of that as a life-long resident of "the real world"...a world where most people don't hate and fear the idea of working for real change.