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Auntie Maxine and the quest for impeachment
Instead of a poet or a musician, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) stepped onto the stage, showered with applause and cheers. Not many members of Congress could draw this kind of crowd diverse and yet united behind a single goal. After taking a moment to thank the crowd for its greeting, Waters got right to the point.
Donald Trump is someone that found his way to the presidency of the United States of America I still dont know how, she said, drawing boos at the mention of the presidents name. But hes someone that Im committed to getting impeached!
The crowd exploded.
Hes a liar! Hes a cheat! Hes a con man! she said, each declaration punctuated by cheers. Weve got to stop his ass!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/auntie-maxine-and-the-quest-for-impeachment/2017/04/29/38a26816-2476-11e7-a1b3-faff0034e2de_story.html?utm_term=.dc23401d0a11#comments
I'm with her!
Fighting for civil rights and social justice
These are the tenets of the Democratic Party.
Yet many want to diminish or discard it.
Why?
An excellent resource to help take back the House
I saw this Hillary Clinton tweet in my twitter feed
https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/858131019358244865
so I visited the site. This is a great resource to help win swing districts in 2018.
https://swingleft.org/about
There's also an article in the New Yorker that discusses who they are and what this grassroots mission is about.
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/jia-tolentino/swing-left-and-the-post-election-surge-of-progressive-activism
Democrats must support a women's right to choose. Period.
If you personally are pro life, and if you personally would not opt to have an abortion, that's fine.
But if you try to impose your personal view on abortion on any other woman other than yourself, you are not a Democrat, or a Democratic ally.
Women's rights are human rights, and this is non negotiable.
Identity Politics and Electoral Loss
He said that national politics is not about difference, but about commonality, and that Clintons campaign failed to speak clearly enough to issues like economic justice that cut across group lines. In a campaign that set out to embrace diversity, white, rural, religious Americans started to see themselves as a disadvantaged group whose identity and real-world needs were being ignored.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/04/03/identity-politics-and-electoral-loss
A question was asked, "What is the Alt-Left?" In my opinion the Alt-Left are individuals who are economic liberals and social conservatives. My belief is that the Democratic Party must strive to continue to be both economically and socially liberal.
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