Hillary May Have Just LOST This Campaign

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267. You live in one district

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Firstly, it's not a question of just not supporting it. This OP insists her failure to mention it in this one speech lost her the election. Your claim is that now no one will door knock because like you they see failure to mention TPP as more serious than a campaign kick off even staged with white faces only.

I have no doubt you know your district, which is not close to representing all of America. And no, I don't believe the Somali women active in my area put the interests of the white bourgeoisie above their own. I don't believe the African Americans who canvass in North Minneapolis to get mandatory sick leave passed by the state legislature care more about the white bourgeoisie's latest fixation than the gun violence and school quality in their neighborhood. I don't believe the tribal peoples here put you all first either. So we may lose a few of the folks from around the lakes or the suburbs who decide to slum it with us at election time, but we'll manage without them. But really, I doubt they are so fickle and lacking in principle that they would completely abandon a commitment to the DFL because Clinton didn't mention TPP in her kick off speech.

The outrage about Clinton failing to mention TPP juxtaposes with the fury that arose on this site when some members noted that Sanders kick off event was populated by all white faces. Even now on his website there isn't a mention about people of color or women. But people here dealt with that concern by dishonestly claiming people had called Sanders a racist, so that made it easy to ignore anyone but yourselves. I believe you'll find such exclusionary tactics far more limiting, and in fact you have already lost Sanders supporters here as a result.