Reply #81: not every district [View All]

[Two Americas]

There are some upscale districts, suburbs, that will probably always be conservative. But they are the exception. It is people in the upper 10% income bracket who are conservative, profoundly conservative, regardless of which party they are in. They control the Democratic party and the discussion. They already have a party - the Republican party. The Democratic party succeeds to the degree that it represents the working people rather than the gentrified upscale crowd, and that by definition means left wing politics.

Minnesota should be more conservative then Michigan or Ohio. The difference is the DFL - Democrats with courage and conviction. This "swing state" nonsense is a MSM construct.

I work in agriculture with people in "red" districts all across the country. I have no difficulty explaining McGovern.

On Michigan during the mid-terms by working through the farm organizations and taking strong left wing positions, almost every red district went Democratic for the first tom,e in decades. Every district except the Calvinist Dutch reform area near Grand Rapids was in play, and dozens and dozens - all but a couple that were toss ups because they have communities of more upscale second home people.

We can't win anything if we do not go to every district, and if we do not stand for anything. Get out, stand up, and speak out and everything is in play.

I never see any activists in the red districts. People there never hear the left wing point if view. The are far to the left from most if the more upscale people in the activist community, but you have to get out there and talk to them. You can't assume "oh they are red" or "they are conservative."

If people here are serious about politics they must stop allowing the MSM to do their thinking for them, get out into the poor districts, the blue collar districts, and the rural districts, and they need to stand for something and have the courage to speak out.

Working people can be moved to the Left, they are moving to the Left right now. But they won't of we don't speak, if we don't try, if we are promoting some wishy washy "centrist" nonsense and playing "swing state" games and pandering to our imaginary "red" districts. That is all reactive rather than proactive, and becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy.

As the recent election approached, what I heard again and again and again, every day, in the packing plants, on the loading dock, at the farm co-op, and in the fields was "we need another New Deal." It is the conservatives among us in the Democratic party who are now trying to deny and frustrate the aspirations and needs of the working people.