In the discussion thread: Mustn't we reevaluate our party since it is is going through a right wing realignment? [View all]
Response to arendt (Reply #54)
Wed May 11, 2016, 03:36 PM
forjusticethunders (1,151 posts)
84. I want a left that:
1: Is intersectional and places marginalized people in the front of the movement (no whining about identity politics or social issues being divisive, for example)
2: Is willing to work with moderates even if it requires compromising in the short term (because coalition building will, if done properly, move the moderates left) 3: Has concrete plans and solutions that can be defended objectively 4: Is willing to accept blame for its failures and reevaluate strategy and tactics instead of blaming the people who rejected them. 5: Is interested more in coalition building, grassroots activism, local and state engagement, voter registration, and other nuts and bolts organizing than grand protests for attention. The ideology isn't the issue, the attitude is. The left does a lot of virtue signaling and very little actual productive action and a lot of people are seeing through this and rejecting the current iterations of "progressive politics" |
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