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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Time to make people mad: The modern left sucks and this primary proves it. [View all]forjusticethunders
(1,151 posts)20. So what did the left do in response to the rise of the Third Way?
Protest?
Try to win in local and state elections?
Go into the streets and try to explain why Third Way politics would screw them over?
Do outreach, organizing and social work in disadvantage communities like the center-leftist (with the huge emphasis on center) Obama did?
Why is the most prominent community organizer since MLK a centrist University of Chicago grad?
Are you seeing the problem yet?
The Left needs to put some boots on the ground like they did in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Time to make people mad: The modern left sucks and this primary proves it. [View all]
forjusticethunders
Mar 2016
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the left does not exist as a movement. there are issue movements like choice, GLBT rights,
geek tragedy
Mar 2016
#3
That would start with being willing to allow the Democratic Party to lose elections for a while.
Bread and Circus
Mar 2016
#10
Right, because it's always up to others to do the hard lifting that you're demanding. Never you, eh?
CalvinballPro
Mar 2016
#56
no matter how many times you post that same tedious insult, it doesn't get
geek tragedy
Mar 2016
#45
You have admitted your only goal is to cause the Democrats to lose elections, that is your agenda.
geek tragedy
Mar 2016
#49
I suggest you start by visiting with family members of those who got blown up in Iraq
geek tragedy
Mar 2016
#55
Organizing, convincing people, and creating a self-sustaining movement
forjusticethunders
Mar 2016
#17
your knowledge of 'the left' is remarkably shallow, especially considering what you claim to be...
islandmkl
Mar 2016
#15
I just don't think you understand how politics and political power works.
Bread and Circus
Mar 2016
#26
"The left shoulda..." Who are the left? What is their shared apparatus of organization?
whatchamacallit
Mar 2016
#18
The "left" is big enough to get a lot of Democrats "not elected" if it galavanized and chose to.
Bread and Circus
Mar 2016
#38
you talk like someone who's here to help Republicans win elections, not contribute
geek tragedy
Mar 2016
#48
You don't seem to know what you are talking about so you and your buddy are making stuff up.
Bread and Circus
Mar 2016
#61