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In reply to the discussion: Stunning polls show Sanders soaring while 'TrumpCare' crashes [View all]synergie
(1,901 posts)Dem based on the candidates, with a couple of notable exceptions. (A pouty vote for Stein and family loyalty vote for the black sheep cousin who ran as an R for some local thing.)
I don't really care what he chooses to call himself, I'm just aware that he said something entirely different during the campaign and it bothers me how quickly he abandoned that promise.
We do indeed need to continue our work in this party, and hopefully we can continue this momentum. Minimizing the work of those doing it does tend to be a bit of a slap in the face. It's not some Senator or Rep, and it's not just Milennials, our older siblings who are just a few years older are getting annoyed at being ignored too. All that attention was on the college kids, who apparently didn't get the civics lessons the folks too young to be Gen X or Y and don't make the cut off for Milennials. These are the folks who are stepping up too. The people settling into careers and raising families and who know that lofty goals are great, but we need hard headed pragmatism too on every level.
I think we'll be fine, but a little respect for the people doing the work is in order. We don't need the top levels to organize us, we're doing that well on our own (and doing so with our parents and older siblings/cousins too).