Reply #389: You have to take the long-term view [View All]

[Radical Activist]

How many seats have we lost by not defending basic Democratic values? How many seats have we lost because we allowed our message to be compromised by corporate money? How many seats have we lost because we ran bland, conservative candidates who don't appeal to anyone but the big money contributors in New York?

When we fail to stand for progressive values we allow the Republicans to keep shifting the nation to the right. Endless compromises of principle for practical political concerns is exactly why we don't have a majority today. If we had the courage to run candidates with a progressive economic populist message in places like Tennessee and Kansas then we would be talking about how to get a filibuster proof Democratic majority.