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It's time for Democrats to go big

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younger, more progressive and more colorful
be less cautious and incremental
first two out Black gay men in Congress
more socialist
against police violence
Medicare for All
legalizing marijuana
universal basic incomes
reducing police budgets
Green New Deal

pandemic response.
structural court reform
end the filibuster
treat election access... national crisis that it is
gun control
pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants
abortion access
police reform
government-run healthcare
reducing the fossil fuel economy

Democratic Party existed to improve the lives of working-class people
[expand beyond] urban enclaves and the educated elite
[don't] lecture or patronize them
giv[e] the American people cash in hand ... $2,000 a month for the remainder of this pandemic would be a good place to start
Universal basic income

[appeal to stockholders and those who depend on GDP measurements]


[reverse the Democratic Party's] lurch rightward
[don't] make the mistake of sacrificing our own ideals to accommodate theirs
end the Covid-19 pandemic
health care, housing, competent infrastructure
just and fair economy.
mega-corporations ... have corrupted or compromised them
more public investment in our public schools
Medicare for All
break.. our addiction to fossil fuels through the Green New Deal
rooting out systemic racism in every policy

coronavirus
return the party to its roots in the labor and civil rights

public college
end mass incarceration and deportation

shake off its image as a party for the coastal elites
embrace a friendlier version of populism
champion the unaddressed problems of everyday people
[don't be] anti-immigrant, anti-elite and too often anti-Jewish

[diversity]
Hold... together a big, broad, diverse, multi-racial, multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, multi-gender, multi-generational, multi-regional, multi-religious party is good training for leading a big, broad, diverse, multi-racial, multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, multi-gender, multi-generational, multi-regional, multi-religious country

[end] The narrative about party division
take the best lessons we have learned this year to date.
stop making the assumption that just because something hasn't happened yet means that everyone involved with the Democratic Party before 2016 is against it
stop associating political experience with weakness and corruption
refrain from using Twitter as the political barometer

racial equity
racial equity
racial equity

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I think most Dems here are driven by politics, not policies. They're so overwhelmed by Orange Man Bad they can't think past that.

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SIGNYM: I think most Dems here are driven by politics, not policies. They're so overwhelmed by Orange Man Bad they can't think past that.

REAVERBOT: He's the biggest problem we've got, so yeah.

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Also, the Dems are almost indistinguishable from the Repubs. They serve the same corporate masters. The DNC has done everything they possibly can to crush progressives and ice them out.

Joe doesn't want to legalize marijuana. He doesn't want to defund police, or give us M4A, or a Green New Deal. He's basically a Republican.

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IDENTITY POLITICS focused groups

~younger, more progressive and more colorful
~first two out Black gay men in Congress
~Hold... together a big, broad, diverse, multi-racial, multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, multi-gender, multi-generational, multi-regional, multi-religious party is good training for leading a big, broad, diverse, multi-racial, multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, multi-gender, multi-generational, multi-regional, multi-religious country
~rooting out systemic racism in every policy
~shake off its image as a party for the coastal elites
~[don't be] anti-immigrant, anti-elite and too often anti-Jewish
~[expand beyond] urban enclaves and the educated elite
~[don't] lecture or patronize them
~pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants
~[diversity]
~racial equity
~racial equity
~racial equity


GOVERNMENT ACROSS THE BOARD HELP

~more socialist
~Medicare for All
~Medicare for All
~government-run healthcare
~Democratic Party existed to improve the lives of working-class people
~giv[e] the American people cash in hand ... $2,000 a month for the remainder of this pandemic would be a good place to start
~universal basic incomes
~Universal basic income
~health care, housing, competent infrastructure
~more public investment in our public schools
~public college
~abortion access


POLICE/ JUSTICE

~against police violence
~reducing police budgets
~structural court reform
~end mass incarceration and deportation
~police reform
~legalizing marijuana

CORONAVIRUS

~pandemic response
~end the Covid-19 pandemic
~coronavirus


ENVIRONMENT

~Green New Deal
~reducing the fossil fuel economy
~break.. our addiction to fossil fuels through the Green New Deal


LOOKING IN THE MIRROR

~be less cautious and incremental
~[reverse the Democratic Party's] lurch rightward
~[don't] make the mistake of sacrificing our own ideals to accommodate theirs
~mega-corporations ... have corrupted or compromised them
~return the party to its roots in the labor and civil rights
~[end] The narrative about party division
~take the best lessons we have learned this year to date.
~stop making the assumption that just because something hasn't happened yet means that everyone involved with the Democratic Party before 2016 is against it
~stop associating political experience with weakness and corruption
~refrain from using Twitter as the political barometer


ECONOMIC STRUCTURE

~just and fair economy.
~[appeal to stockholders and those who depend on GDP measurements]


MISC

~end the filibuster
~treat election access... national crisis that it is
~gun control
~embrace a friendlier version of populism
~champion the unaddressed problems of everyday people

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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
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IDENTITY POLITICS focused groups

~younger, more progressive and more colorful
~first two out Black gay men in Congress
~Hold... together a big, broad, diverse, multi-racial, multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, multi-gender, multi-generational, multi-regional, multi-religious party is good training for leading a big, broad, diverse, multi-racial, multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, multi-gender, multi-generational, multi-regional, multi-religious country
~rooting out systemic racism in every policy
~shake off its image as a party for the coastal elites
~[don't be] anti-immigrant, anti-elite and too often anti-Jewish
~[expand beyond] urban enclaves and the educated elite
~[don't] lecture or patronize them
~pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants
~[diversity]
~racial equity
~racial equity
~racial equity


GOVERNMENT ACROSS THE BOARD HELP

~more socialist
~Medicare for All
~Medicare for All
~government-run healthcare
~Democratic Party existed to improve the lives of working-class people
~giv[e] the American people cash in hand ... $2,000 a month for the remainder of this pandemic would be a good place to start
~universal basic incomes
~Universal basic income
~health care, housing, competent infrastructure
~more public investment in our public schools
~public college
~abortion access


POLICE/ JUSTICE

~against police violence
~reducing police budgets
~structural court reform
~end mass incarceration and deportation
~police reform
~legalizing marijuana

CORONAVIRUS

~pandemic response
~end the Covid-19 pandemic
~coronavirus


ENVIRONMENT

~Green New Deal
~reducing the fossil fuel economy
~break.. our addiction to fossil fuels through the Green New Deal


LOOKING IN THE MIRROR

~be less cautious and incremental
~[reverse the Democratic Party's] lurch rightward
~[don't] make the mistake of sacrificing our own ideals to accommodate theirs
~mega-corporations ... have corrupted or compromised them
~return the party to its roots in the labor and civil rights
~[end] The narrative about party division
~take the best lessons we have learned this year to date.
~stop making the assumption that just because something hasn't happened yet means that everyone involved with the Democratic Party before 2016 is against it
~stop associating political experience with weakness and corruption
~refrain from using Twitter as the political barometer


ECONOMIC STRUCTURE

~just and fair economy.
~[appeal to stockholders and those who depend on GDP measurements]


MISC

~end the filibuster
~treat election access... national crisis that it is
~gun control
~embrace a friendlier version of populism
~champion the unaddressed problems of everyday people

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~reduce the size of the military
~withdraw from endless overseas military commitments
~rescind US first-strike position
~negotiate nuclear arms deals

~make hard and fast commitments to reduce greenhouse gasses
~invest in the US environment - toxics cleanup, forest restoration, farmland preservation
~plastics reductions

... more later ...

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IDENTITY POLITICS focused groups

~younger, more progressive and more colorful
~first two out Black gay men in Congress
~Hold... together a big, broad, diverse, multi-racial, multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, multi-gender, multi-generational, multi-regional, multi-religious party is good training for leading a big, broad, diverse, multi-racial, multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, multi-gender, multi-generational, multi-regional, multi-religious country
~rooting out systemic racism in every policy
~shake off its image as a party for the coastal elites
~[don't be] anti-immigrant, anti-elite and too often anti-Jewish
~[expand beyond] urban enclaves and the educated elite
~[don't] lecture or patronize them
~pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants
~[diversity]
~racial equity
~racial equity
~racial equity

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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
The fucking Chinese have an education system that looks like a prison.


Take a billion Chinese and run them through the grinder and you'll get a few standouts that might just possibly move the entire country forward. IMO the Chinese have not too much concern for the individual. They're trying to solve BIG problems, not coddle people through them.

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