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In reply to the discussion: How do we rebuild the Democratic Party? [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)My reasons for not voting for Hillary are that she IS A REPUBLICAN and that she is a Third-Wayer and I do not believe she can get elected.
I'm the one who talks to real people when I work on campaigns. I know my Democratic representatives at various levels. I am concerned about whether the person who claims to be a candidate really understands the problems of ordinary people and is working to ameliorate the lives of ordinary people.
If someone is playing best buddies with those who are causing the lives of ordinary Americans to be utterly insecure, employed one day, out the next, unable to find decent child care or schools or even a choice of grocery stores in some areas, then I'm not for that person. Fortunately, I am in California, land of the at least for now sane voters and I can fully support all of the Democrats I vote for.
I realize it isn't so easy in some parts of the country. But here in California, some Democrats started a sort of grassroots revolution in the Democratic Party back in the 1960s that built local Democratic clubs and turned our Democratic Party around.
And that is where the answer is to winning elections -- active, local Democratic clubs. Do you belong to one? Have you been an officer in it? Are you active? Do you go to the meetings? Do you register voters and campaign at the grass roots? To me that is the test for an active Democrats in Califonria.
What would you say is the test for an active Democrat?
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