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In reply to the discussion: And the hits just keep coming.... Bernie Sanders: The Model of the Democratic Party Is Failing [View all]AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)and what we can do to eliminate them.
As a party, we've been weak for Labor for a good decade or more. Pretty much since the tail end of the Clinton presidency.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2010/02/11/unions-bash-democrats-warn-political-fallout
And there were continued warning signs during the primaries on just that.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-idUSKCN0SP0HX20151031
For decades the Right has chipped away at family planning, and we've done pretty much nothing to push back. We oppose their depredations, and sometimes win, but we take losses. When's the last time we actually PUSHED BACK and WON? Can you even remember? I don't. Not outside a courtroom. On the legislature side, all we've done is slowly slip and lose ground since I was a teen.
Close elections can be finagled and even stolen. Sure.
Bottom line, it shouldn't have been close enough TO steal. You rail about Comey, and Russia (by the way, we interfere in theirs, they interfere in ours, since time immemorial) and that's great, some of us want to go back and shore up the actual beating heart base of the Democratic Party.