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JonLP24

(29,322 posts) Mon Dec 18, 2017, 11:05 PM Dec 2017

The autopsy for the dnc is out

The slogan “We are the 99 percent!” became the rallying cry at Occupy protests and spoke to the growing concentration of wealth with the 1 percent. On a scale never seen before, it was a massive rebuke of neoliberal economic policies — privatization of public space and institutions, attacks on labor unions, corporate globalization and systemic police repression. The dramatic upsurge of articulated resentment at vast economic injustice caused a major shift in the country’s political discourse, which served as a whetstone for Obama to sharpen his attacks on Mitt Romney. The GOP nominee’s wealth and his services for the rich kept him in a defensive crouch. As the New York Times reported midway through 2012, the Obama-Romney battle was proceeding “in an era of populist backlashes against the 1 percent and increased concern about the economic and social ramifications of income inequality.”

And this

Social movements cannot be understood as tools to get Democrats elected. The ebb and flow of social movements offer a rising tide in their own right that along the way can lift Democratic Party candidates — if the party is able to embrace the broad popular sentiment that the movements embody. Candidates’ lip service to social movements is commonly understood as such; failing to make genuine common cause with grassroots outlooks can undermine campaign enthusiasm, volunteers, online participation, recurring small-dollar contributions, and turnout at election time.

One of the most memorable grassroots themes at the 2016 Democratic National Convention was the sustained protest against the Trans-Pacific Partnership by environmental, labor and other activists in the streets of Philadelphia and by many delegates inside the arena. President Obama’s all-out push for the widely unpopular trade pact loomed over the convention’s platform drafting process as Obama surrogates and Clinton delegates worked to prevent explicit language opposing the TPP, even though during the primaries Clinton had made public her switch from supporting to opposing it. Shortly before the convention, progressive populist and Sanders supporter Jim Hightower warned that working-class families in swing states wouldn’t be content with “soft words,” and that “using lame language tells them we will not stand with them.”

We warned them.
https://democraticautopsy.org/democratic-party-in-crisis/

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The autopsy for the dnc is out (Original Post) JonLP24 Dec 2017 OP

We wouldn't be where we are today without help like this. 4now Dec 2017 #1

Then explain why every Democrat running for Senate in those critical swign states lost to the still_one Dec 2017 #2

4now

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1. We wouldn't be where we are today without help like this.

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Mon Dec 18, 2017, 11:47 PM

Dec 2017

still_one

(92,219 posts)

2. Then explain why every Democrat running for Senate in those critical swign states lost to the

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Mon Dec 18, 2017, 11:48 PM

Dec 2017

incumbent, establishment republican, and most of those Democrats running were quite progressive such as Russ Feingold.

What happened is that enough self-identified progressives decided that there was no difference between Democrats and republican, and believed that bullshit, and either voted third party, or didn't vote at all.

Well there is a difference, and anyone who has f**king eyes that can see it.

It was an ESTABLISHMENT DEMOCRAT who appointed Justice Ginsburg, and an establishment Democrats that appointed justices that weren't right wing ideologue. Enjoy Gorsuch you suckers who believed there was no difference between the republicans and Democrats.

Everyone of President Obama's policies are slowly being dismantled, from being part of the Paris Accords, rolling back EPA rules, singing of the Lilly Ledbetter act, the Iran Nuclear Treaty, getting our foot in the door so people who have pre-existing conditions could get health insurance, those under certain incomes could get subsidies to help pay for premiums, expanded Medicaid, children's healthcare, (SCHIPS), bailed out the U.S. auto industry, and helped prevent a depression with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, worked for energy independence by pushing clean energy, the SCHIPS program, Dodd/Frank, normalized relations with Cuba, etc. etc. etc. That he didn't meet some people's purist view, of all or nothing, they will now experience "the NOTHING" part. Enjoy

Establishment Democrats gave us Medicare, Social Security, the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Act, etc. etc. etc.

Noam Chomsky said it best: "Progressives who refused to vote for Hillary Clinton made a ‘bad mistake’"

https://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/noam-chomsky-progressives-who-refused-to-vote-for-hillary-clinton-made-a-bad-mistake/

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