2016 Postmortem

Would be to strengthen the economic justice program(a program that never conflicted with the fight for "social justice", btw). Doing that wouldn't have caused any of the issues you prioritize(and that I agree with you on, issue for issue)to be left out in the cold, and won't have that effect in the future.

And I didn't say that the current situationiin this country was oppression-free-rather-Nothing I have ever said would track with you believing that about me, that all sections of the party and of the progressive side of the spectrum are committed.

I want us to defeat social oppression, just as I want us to defeat corporate greed and to end the unjust concentration of wealth in the hands of a few. That is at least half of the reason I'm a supporter of economic justice-because you can't reduce bigotry in a society where people are in fear of falling into want-as the continuing post-1965 "white backlash" has taught us. It's that fear that makes tribalism(the sense that people have to care only about them selves and their "own kind&quot appealing-scarcity and fear of scarcity causes people to turn to selfishness and smallness of spirit.

And yes, what people like myself support might cost us some corporate/Wall Street donors, but did those donors do us any good? They didn't get us the Senate...they didn't get us Congress...they didn't get us the White House. I'm fairly sure that money is all just gone now, and of no further use to us.

I am involved in organizing work(antiracist organizing work), and you have no good reason to be personally angry at me. I campaigned for Hillary all fall and spent a lot of time trying to persuade people to our left to vote for her. Sometimes I think I succeeded, other times not. But I am not a saboteur and I am not the cause of our failure to carry the Upper Midwest. And I'm as devastated about the result as you are. I didn't want to see Trump get in anymore than you did.

And the reason I post on this board a lot is that it's the best way for me to communicate. it's almost impossible to create a large-scale movement of change solely on person-to-person contact.