12-28-2016, 05:59 PM
(12-28-2016, 03:04 PM)David Horn Wrote:(12-26-2016, 03:08 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: No, Eric's enlightened idiots are not the problem. They support the right causes all up and down the line. Those who are deceived by Republicans are the problem. The Democrats need to organize to fight back, not call each other the problem.
No Eric, the UC/UMC-wing of the Democratic Party is the entire problem. You can't win general elections by just being sensitive to LGBTGA rights, and by opposing every energy project, no matter how benign. Worse, all these issue groups reuse to support one another, so no one wins.
I don't know what UC/UMC wing refers too, but in any case, the social justice and the economic concerns are fused together, and all these issues and those concerned about them must be seen together, if the progressive side is to win. I don't know if they will, but I am predicting that they will by the 2020s, FWIW.
The pipelines must be opposed; they are not benign. Nuclear energy must be safe, with recycling of waste, or it's not benign either. We can't do without energy, though, so all sides must be allies in the general fight against the owners of our country and their neo-liberal philosophy. That is the common enemy to all these groups within the progressive movement and the Democrats. It must be defeated so that alternative energy can be supported.
This common enemy is summed up in the slogan, "I oppose giving my tax money to X-groups (blacks, women, hispanics, lazy people) who don't work." That meme is out of date in the age of outsourcing and automation, wage/salary gross inequality, and refusal to use government to tackle any issue no matter how threatening to the environment and the people. "The government is not the solution; government is the problem." THAT'S the meme, the slogan, that must be replaced. It's "I refuse to allow the government to steal my money and give it to lazy people." It's the common enemy to ALL the groups and issues of concern among progressives, liberals, Democrats, etc. We must focus on ending neo-liberalism, or we must die.
Look at that picture of Reagan and Thatcher at the White House, and their look and attitude. That's the common enemy. Trump is their new face.