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Everyone failed.

11/23/2016

 
As a Democratic Precinct Committee Person, a campaign volunteer (Bernie, then Hillary), and a Voter Outreach Chair for my district, I am exhausted and despondent these days. I did my best and pushed as hard as I could. However, I found the same inexcusable strategic errors, resistance to change, and dedication to old and disproved tactics that I saw in the 2014 election. The Democratic Party is in many ways a misguided, outdated, entrenched mess from the local level to the DNC.

Here's a controversial article that posits what some of the issues were. Mark Lilla offers a perspective worth consideration (although he, too, is over-simplifying from a privileged man's viewpoint). 

There is much to be done if our nation and our planet are to survive the missteps and horrific outcome of this election cycle. I'm not certain where I will refocus my energies, but it will be nowhere that embraces the status quo.

READ IT HERE:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/opinion/sunday/the-end-of-identity-liberalism.html?_r=0

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