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In reply to the discussion: It would be nice if the centrists in this party did some introspection, too. [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)Do you really believe it's not possible to live in the real world and still work for a BETTER world?
There's nothing we're fighting for in the short term that we can ONLY fight for by giving up on working for broader change.
For forty years, I've block-walked(canvassed-the two phrases mean exactly the same thing)stuffed envelopes, phone banked. I've also spent years attending district committee meetings, participating in caucuses(I've mainly lived in caucus states, and actually prefer presidential primaries-caucuses were not invented by the Sanders campaign OR the Obama campaign-they were simply what existed in the state parties I lived in).
I worked hard for candidates who were almost always well to my right, and did so gladly.
What more could I possibly have done to prove I'm "real world"?
I support Indivisible(they don't have a chapter where I am or I probably would have gone to it)but Indivisible and People Power aren't the only "real world" ways to be involved in effective anti-Trump politics.
And all I'm saying in this thread is that we can't ever conduct another fall campaign exactly the way we conducted this one. Given the results of this fall campaign, how is that observation NOT "real world"?
Would you actually argue that our next campaign should be an exact repeat of this one?