Hey everyone. Well, here we are. We are alive.
Not that I expect to survive long once Trump takes over, because people like me (disabled, poor, female, queer) are first under the guillotine for social services and rights. Once I lose my Medicaid, I die. We can't afford my healthcare even with a good normal insurance plan. I take 15 prescriptions a month to keep my heart and brain working. 15 $25 copays under Trump's "Medicaid"? Yeah right.
I just hope that a lesson is learned. Identity liberalism is DONE. It killed us. We got separated out into little arguing groups that either resented each other or tried to curry favor, we got alienated from working class whites...and we got creamed.
We need to emphasize what we want to do for EVERYONE. Not just the marginalized minorities--and I say that as a member of several of them. It doesn't matter that some groups are more needy or more deserving. We either get the working class whites back on our side with broad-appeal messages, or we lose.
As much as I hate to say it, in this one thing, I think Bernie Sanders was on the right track, much to hindsight's regret.
I want to bury my head and hide, but I can't. I live or die based on the midterms. So I pray that we can admit our mistakes...admit that we got waaaaaay off message and too focused on identity liberalism, instead of trying to welcome working class whites and show them that we care about them, TOO.
Yes, they are privileged. Yes, it's not fair, but that is just too bad. They hate us, in part, because they think we look down on THEM. That we sneer and judge and ignore them. And they're right.
So we have to fix that problem. Ideas?
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