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Laura Hubka explains why she recently stepped back from local and state leadership roles in the IDP
...We all know the story of the losses and the “investigation” and “rebranding” we tried to do over the years as we got our asses handed to us.
We blamed “money” and “outside” sources. Everyone in leadership kept looking past the problem. The “party” was anything but a party. The power struggle within was getting bigger and bigger and we watched really good candidates get squashed out of the game, because no one wanted to face the hard truth that America was changing.
We say that the Republicans want to “take us back,” but the Democrats don’t want to change either. They are not brave enough to try something different because “that won’t win races.” Well, were we winning? Maybe I missed that? No, we lost a RECORD number of seats. More than ever before. Still, we saw back slapping and old ways used over and over again. “Wink and nod.”
We want to “celebrate” that Secretary Hillary Clinton got the “popular vote”. We want to put a “W” in our column? Really? That shows the desperation we have gotten accustomed to. We are so proud that we “won” even though half of the players on our team (The USA) did not even want to play?
So we stand around being “proud” and pointing fingers at Clinton, Bernie and the Russians. Who do you really think lost this thing? The 99% of American people who are struggling to work, live, eat and find some sort of “American dream”. WHY? Because we stopped talking to them and instead assumed they were “ours” because, well, you know “people that vote Republican are deplorable.” We let the internet talk to them. The internet told them nothing but that “we” were not the Republicans.
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More...http://www.bleedingheartland.com/2017/10/08/we-are-not-the-ones-we-were-waiting-for/#.WdwK6AG2_78.facebook
We blamed “money” and “outside” sources. Everyone in leadership kept looking past the problem. The “party” was anything but a party. The power struggle within was getting bigger and bigger and we watched really good candidates get squashed out of the game, because no one wanted to face the hard truth that America was changing.
We say that the Republicans want to “take us back,” but the Democrats don’t want to change either. They are not brave enough to try something different because “that won’t win races.” Well, were we winning? Maybe I missed that? No, we lost a RECORD number of seats. More than ever before. Still, we saw back slapping and old ways used over and over again. “Wink and nod.”
We want to “celebrate” that Secretary Hillary Clinton got the “popular vote”. We want to put a “W” in our column? Really? That shows the desperation we have gotten accustomed to. We are so proud that we “won” even though half of the players on our team (The USA) did not even want to play?
So we stand around being “proud” and pointing fingers at Clinton, Bernie and the Russians. Who do you really think lost this thing? The 99% of American people who are struggling to work, live, eat and find some sort of “American dream”. WHY? Because we stopped talking to them and instead assumed they were “ours” because, well, you know “people that vote Republican are deplorable.” We let the internet talk to them. The internet told them nothing but that “we” were not the Republicans.
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More...http://www.bleedingheartland.com/2017/10/08/we-are-not-the-ones-we-were-waiting-for/#.WdwK6AG2_78.facebook