This essay is about defeating bad Dem leaders we all do not like. It's planting a flag in the camp arguing that abstention doesn't build power where we need to build it.
This essay is *not* about the left apologizing for taking necessary moral stands. Take the stand! *In a way that builds power.*
This essay is *not* about the left apologizing for taking necessary moral stands. Take the stand! *In a way that builds power.*
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Toby Buckle
One thing I'd ask the online left is what's *your* plan to persuade the voters profiled here to vote for you in a democratic primary?
Because, yelling at them & name calling probably won't work
newrepublic.com/article/1953...
Because, yelling at them & name calling probably won't work
newrepublic.com/article/1953...
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I see a *lot* of people who seem not to get that "agrees with all my policies, at least on paper (may or may not have actual track record)" and "is remotely effective in enacting any of those policies" are different things. and that the latter is important, actually.
https://bsky.app/profile/polphilpod.bsky.social/post/3lpoqt5ueqc2c
also that it helps he seems here to be clarifying he means *political candidates*, not just any old voter in the coalition.
I think.
The problem is that primary voters associate the left with abstention, its leaders need to reverse that.
I like your distinction between "mainline" and "anti establishment," it seems clearer than "liberal/progressive" and "left."
Since here you're saying "left"--how are you defining that for our purposes here?
Or, who, even?
There are a number of podcasters and streamers and such who may fall more into "post left" (I still can never remember who we mean by "dirtbag left")
So are we talking, what, DSA?