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In reply to the discussion: Imagine if, rather than blaming the "far left", (whatever you think that is), [View all]GaryCnf
(1,399 posts)We are sticking our heads in the sand if we keep living in denial of the fact that (when looking at the Blue Wall states in what I call the pre-WTF states where the polls were either closed or would close in an hour when PA was called for Trump) our centrist campaign was a dismal failure in inspiring black turnout, or turnout among any oppressed group for that matter. (60,000 less votes in Wayne Couny, Michigan) The irony in that is that the campaign which CLAIMED to be centered on social justice lacked any credible message for oppressed constituencies. The tragedy is that the privileged political class that inhabit message boards would rather blame those constituencies for not reading our platform than our campaign for refusing to talk to them in front of its white suburban "Clinton/Reagan Democrat" supposed "friends"