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I wish Dems would start spitting fire and come out with an ad going through the list of prejudices throughout our history.
"Native Americans / Aborigines? Italians? Jews? Asians? Blacks? Latinos? Women voting? Muslims? Gay? And now trans?
Isn't it always something? When will we all see the pattern here that these witch hunts always fall on the wrong side of history. And they're always perpetrated by the same sort of people - not grouped by the color of their skin race or religion, but of profound ignorance rooted in fear of the unknown. Cutting across every other adjective used to divide us, we are ALL human."
Side note but my god I still think of that Bernie Sanders ad from his 2016 campaign, Vote Together.
The problem right now is that there are a bunch of bigots who vote Democratic and the margins are sliver-thin.
Maybe they would actually get more voters if they did that, but I don't know that they necessarily would. I think the people who have given up on the Democratic party would say, "too little, too late."
There's also the problem that the party is being run by a bunch of elders who have paleolithic moral compasses.
Fair point. I feel Immediately following elections Democrats need to pivot into this one-part educational teacher mindset to dispel common myths on us history and civics (eg, "The Dems were the slavers!"), and one-part activism. Every election cycle we fall for the trap of letting the blind lead the blind. To carve out the winning electorate by whatever means necessary as you say. But when do we actually try to nudge Americans in the right direction? This is what I commended Warren or Sanders for because they built a movement around where the country needed to go through facts and conviction and persuaded people.
Democrats rarely persuade and equally fall for whatever bullshit narrative Republicans design.
You sound like me almost 25 years ago.
This is how things are. This is how they will always be. We will ALWAYS have to fight to keep people from being hated and excluded, especially in ourselves as we look at the people trying to do the excluding and our knee-jerk is to exclude them.
I wish I had the answer so we could skip the hard work and live together in harmony. I worry there just is never an easy answer or change in tactics or shift in messaging - it's just living your whole life with bravery and kindness, as hard as that gets at times.
Gonna have to disagree here. This is the "paradox" of intolerance (not really a paradox). These people have no place in modern society, and this type of behavior and ideology should 100% be excluded.
The quick answer would involve taking away people's free will, so most would consider it unacceptable.