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In reply to the discussion: Let's look at Conor Lamb [View all]BumRushDaShow
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Black folk are not monoliths. With all this discussion about "establishment" vs " (activist) progressive", it goes back to tailoring your message to a community and their needs, and there are many many communities and varying needs.
It was unheard of here in Philly (despite a mayoral endorsement of someone like Lamb who is being supported by the "establishment" as a sidenote), where you had a "progressive" D.A. re-elected - Larry Krasner, despite every dirty trick in the book thrown at him because his focus has been on criminal justice reform, which gets thwarted by many sides of the political spectrum.
You also had, for the first time in memory here, where a member of our City Council was not a Democrat or a Republican or even an Independent, but was from a 3rd party - and a "progressive" one at that - the "Working Families Party", and that was an at-large seat. She is young and has been working her behind off for the people that Democrats demand come out to vote, and then who get left behind. Hell... even my own PA State Representative counts himself in that "activist progressive" group.
So if one wants to look at what is happening deep down in the trenches - there is a grassroots thing bubbling under the surface of many big cities and it hasn't been flashy like you see with AOC and that crowd.