A Dem Tea Party?

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Clarissa

January 3, 2017

An article in the NYTimes suggests that Democrats adopt the strategies of the extraordinarily successful Tea Party to resist Trump:

It’s the Tea Party inverted: locally driven advocacy built on inclusion, fairness and respect.

It would be great to see powerful local organizing efforts on the part of Dem voters. But I don’t believe it will happen because “inclusion, fairness and respect” mean that participants will start policing each other’s speech patterns and publishing angry screeds about their comrades’ failure to be fully inclusive.

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16 responses to “A Dem Tea Party?”

Alex

January 3, 2017

They’d be so fair, inclusive, and respectful that they’d summarily banish and shame anyone suspected of being insufficiently fair, inclusive, and respectful.

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1. Clarissa
  
  January 3, 2017
  
  And nobody is ever fully inclusive and intersectional, so you can always find a reason to hound absolutely anybody.
  
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  1. Fie upon this quiet life
    
    January 3, 2017
    
    “And nobody is ever fully inclusive and intersectional, so you can always find a reason to hound absolutely anybody.”
    
    It’s because of the above comment that I feel like the Democrats either need to split into two parties — “traditional liberals” and “intersectional nit pickers” — or just give up. Traditional liberals want “liberty and justice for all” without getting hot and bothered about the details. The “intersectional nit pickers” are people who happily tear down traditional liberals for not being detail-oriented enough. It’s easier to fight with other liberals than to confront the racist, sexist, xenophobic tendencies of the gun-toting GOP.
    
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    1. Stringer Bell
      
      January 3, 2017
      
      “Democrats either need to split into two parties..”
      
      Yes, but your classification is inaccurate imo. It’s the corporatist hillary-wing of the party, who weaponized ‘intersectional’ and other buzzwords to castigate the left-leaning factions of the party as racist and sexist.
      
      That wing of the party should just die. Or better, join the republicans to make the republican party more civilized.
      
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      1. Clarissa
        
        January 3, 2017
        
        No, it’s the younger generation that’s into this crap. And they were never for Hillary. I don’t think they were for Bernie either. Everybody fails to live up to their expectations.
        
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        Fie upon this quiet life
        
        January 3, 2017
        
        “No, it’s the younger generation that’s into this crap. ” – I honestly have no idea what would please Democrats these days. What’s funny is I watched people celebrate the demise of the GOP the whole election long, but what I’m left feeling is that it’s the Democrats that have been destroyed as a cohesive party, not the GOP.
        
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        Clarissa
        
        January 3, 2017
        
        So true. The Democrats are completely lost. They need to get it together soon because things are getting dangerous.
        
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    2. Dreidel
      
      January 3, 2017
      
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      1. Stringer Bell
        
        January 3, 2017
        
        Actually, he would’ve. His party would’ve kept losing state election after state election, but he would’ve won. And that, sadly, is his legacy.
        
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        Clarissa
        
        January 3, 2017
        
        He can’t do all the work for the damn party. They need to wake up and start working, too. Damn losers. I’m so tired of them.
        
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        Fie upon this quiet life
        
        January 4, 2017
        
        Elizabeth Warren is pretty good at shouting at people and taking on issues that no one could ever fix, way too long after the fact — like student loan debt.
        
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        Stringer Bell
        
        January 4, 2017
        
        DNC’s new anti-trump ‘war room’ filled with hillary operatives. What the fuck do you have to do to lose a job in this town?
        
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        Clarissa
        
        January 4, 2017
        
        That’s going to be one pathetic war. I hope Huma Abedin and Donna Brazile are leading the charge. They totally haven’t done enough yet.
        
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Hattie

January 3, 2017

Nonsense. The tactics work. Take note of our latest victory!

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1. Shakti
  
  January 3, 2017
  
  What victory?
  
  Love the hypnotist X-mas tree avi btw.
  
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  1. Clarissa
    
    January 3, 2017
    
    There’s been nothing but victories. The congress, the governorships, the presidency – Democrats won them all.
    
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