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In these few minutes left to me in 2016, I must say, “What a fucking year!” So much happened, but I’m going to focus on just a couple very, very important things:
A ton of us woke up. The Democratic Party has not performed for the middle class and labor and that needs to change. I know this does not make some of you happy, and know what?
I don’t care.
Too many of my peers have fallen out of the middle class. I myself am hanging on by a mere thread, and that’s after three career jumps too. It’s not over yet, but I’m being tested on all fronts. Doesn’t need to be this way, and I resolve to do all I can to that end.
The wealthy and corporations are simply taking too much. There is no getting around this. I resolve to do everything I can about that too. Income inequality is at unacceptable and impractical levels. If we do not eventually resolve this, bad things are gonna happen. People will act out. It’s human nature.
We now understand money in politics, it’s impact, and what labor and the middle class needs to do. We don’t have expensive advocates dropping millions on our behalf. The poor party performance isn’t a statement of bad intent. It’s simply an artifact of all that money.
Good people run with the best of intentions and in the end, get chewed up, and here we are down something like 1000 seats and divided as a party as to which way to go.
I resolve to do all I can to help labor and the middle class take the party. It’s time. The old guard simply has not performed and we no longer have the luxury needed to entertain all of that.
No more blame, fear and shame politics. Those don’t work for me and we learned how the up and coming people respond to all this too. (not well) While it’s important to understand what happened and why, it’s more important to recognize we can just begin to make better choices in 2017. It’s simple: Join us. The future of the party runs left, it’s about the ideas, people, people money and all that we saw rising this year. Nobody has to know. Nobody has to blame, shame, or fear. We just make things better one day, one person, one election at a time. :D
We have learned what being about ideas means and how it compares to identity type politics. I’m about the ideas now. This does not mean I forget, or set identity aside, but it does mean the ideas come first. We learned how a majority of the nation is in serious economic need, and that majority is in need no matter their race, creed, religion, gender or any other damn thing.
This is about some of the humans taking way too much out of the system, which is fucking a lot of other humans and it’s gonna end.
Wrote this in March. That was the day I stepped away from the old game, old guard, never to return. I can’t. What has been seen cannot be unseen. Know that.
People asked that I be banned for it and some other work too. It was spot on then, is spot on today. Whatever future we have together, it absolutely must be one where labor and the middle class are a priority.
This won’t go well, nor be pretty, but it must happen. See you all on the other side. We will end up a lot stronger for the hassle. Promise.
Our fight begins tomorrow! New politics, new day. I’m ready, willing, able and energized. We can take this a new direction, we can win on our ideas and doing all of that will present meaningful opposition to President elect Trump.
It’s not enough to just oppose. No where close. We need to oppose and push hard on the great ideas we know can win all across this nation.
Stay strong Berners. No way this is over. Not at all!
ONWARD!