... the party that saved the country from the Depression and the Nazis and fascists
... the party that stood up for the poor, the beaten, the disenfranchised
... the party of the masses yearning to breathe free
I posted yesterday. I put a lot of thought into my post. It took me over an hour to construct it. And y'all lambasted me pretty soundly.
Yet somehow you missed my point.
I repeat it here:
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Listen well and hear what I'm saying, because the reason that the Democrats have lost the Congress and the majority of governorships and state houses, is that since 1948, the Democratic party has pissed away constituency after constituency to the point where this is a 50/50 nation with a slight advantage to the Republicans electorally. And with every constituency the Democrats lets go, the Republicans become stronger. Every vote that used to be a Democrat and no longer is makes the Republicans bolder. They don't need to convert Democrats. They just need them to be apathetic. And we are. And that's why voter turnout is so miserable year in and year out. The Republicans vote, you betcha. The disenfranchied are the ones the Democrats don't feel they need anymore.
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And today, our frontrunner, our standard bearer, is sacrificing gays on the alter of electability.
We've discussed that to death.
And yet I was right. You might not want to hear it or see it, but I was right today and I'll be right tomorrow.
Unless we stand up for the weakest in our society, we will wind up weakening ourselves.
Just look at it. Don't let people bash gays, or Blacks, or poor people, or old people, or convicts or whatever it will be tomorrow.
Our strength is in standing together, for we shall surely fall separately.