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In reply to the discussion: DCCC: a gentle reminder about what progressive women do when their rights are in the crosshairs [View all]BainsBane
(57,760 posts)and if you run or vote for any anti-woman's rights, anti-civil rights candidate you want. But the fact is you don't have the votes, and this shit sure as hell can't win based on the merits. You aren't going to succeed in reinstating a Jim Crow, backalley-abortion Democratic party. The demographics of this country are changing, and white men who are threatened by that are going to have to figure out how to cope.
If the party were remade according to your criteria, it wouldn't be worth voting for, and it wouldn't matter if it or the GOP were in the majority. But of course it won't be, and that is precisely what pisses you off.
So by all means, keep up your struggle to line the pockets of the 20% on the backs of the 80%. Fight for medicare for the few. Stand for privilege of the few over equality and justice for the many. Stand up for the values of Me first, last and only. Just don't think the rest of us don't see exactly what is going on.