@Ragman,
I just wanted to speak to your second paragraph.
As a part of the teacher’s movement, my very red state’s teachers have emeetings, we talk online as a group constantly and we have our second face to face meetings in 10 districts next week. Occasionally, our conversation turns to the state representatives who are helping us and the ones who say stupid dismissive **** or break their promises.
Guess what party lines that breaks down to? (I’ll wait)
Bernie contacted our state leadership and asked how he could help.
I speak to three of these district groups—thousands of teachers—and I watch their political conversations. Of course, we have some ignorant as rocks people, spouting anti-communist propaganda from the Middle Ages who cite abortion as the reason they support Republicans.
And thankfully, we have patient liberals who are trying to get those people to see what is actually affecting their day to day lives, how the people THEY VOTED FOR are actively standing in the way of their job improvements, things that will make their daily lives more tolerable.
All this to say: people’s minds are changing. You’re always going to have rigid, unthinking people, but at least in the case of this Berning wildfire, the tide is turning to transformational change. We keep working for change—no matter what polls say, no matter what MSM newsspeakers say.
We’re trying to change the State House and our members of Congress. We partner with the teachers in WV, and we’re making overtures to Arizona.
We need to run people like Manchin and Collins out of the D party, but Pelosi protects them so they can vote with Republicans. She’s as guilty as Republicans. There needs to be a huge earthquake in the D party, to return it to what it was before Bill Clinton made it Republican Lite.
(Uh oh. Rant over)
