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Billsmile

(404 posts) Wed Mar 4, 2020, 02:35 PM Mar 2020

When Liberals Lose, They Blame the Voters. Leftists Can't.

Article in Jacobin.

The task from here on out is to combine two tasks, both of which have headwinds against them. First, the Left needs to convince voters that Bernie’s platform of economic justice and solidarity has the best chance of defeating Donald Trump. Second, it needs to translate the work of campaigning into the more long-term work of building institutions that working-class people identify with and trust to defend their interests.

Sanders didn’t lose last night because voters are stupid or misled. He lost because he is trying to win people to a way of doing politics that is foreign to virtually their entire experience of politics. This is what it means to make a political revolution. No one said it was going to be easy.

https://jacobinmag.com/2020/03/super-tuesday-liberalism-political-revolution-sanders?fbclid=IwAR0qqGtv2MXkuWTQT2nmZ1sQ1MhZ5MlUWyd5fDUfUoIglVrW5heabKjkBrY

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When Liberals Lose, They Blame the Voters. Leftists Can't. (Original Post) Billsmile Mar 2020 OP

In open primaries where republicans vote in Democratic primaries some voters are definitely to blame yaesu Mar 2020 #1

yaesu

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1. In open primaries where republicans vote in Democratic primaries some voters are definitely to blame