Ignore the 3rd Way shills with extreme prejudice

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168. And Stop Triangulating

The GOP loves it when Democrats try to triangulate toward the mythical "middle", because all they have to do is grab onto a corner of that triangle and keep pulling it to the right, "proving" their case with repeated calls to kneejerk emotions.

The Democratic agenda has to be defined in opposition to the GOP, and it has to be defined - and proven - at the local level. That means once a Democrat gets in office, they should be working for their constituents to demonstrate why Democrats should be in office. If Democrats are "progressive" then people have to see what "progress" means at a local level.

In politics, "power" is the ability to win elections. Power is the ability to marshal the vote. Democrats might have something to learn from the women's suffrage movement here. Just how did women who had no power to affect the outcome of elections get enough men to vote to give women the vote? Handing out pamphlet and "educating" the people didn't work for decades. Going to their congressional "representatives" and pleading reason didn't exactly work either. No - they started disrupting at the bottom and showing they could affect the vote and change the course of local elections: they built their own "political machine".