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Frozen Sky Ever Why
ShadowOfTheWave
Junior Chimp
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« on: January 07, 2017, 12:31:01 PM »
« edited: January 07, 2017, 12:34:52 PM by Caripace Clavicle Moundshroud »

Become more moderate and pro white and more blue collar and nominate someone more like Jim Webb and less like Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders

That won't work. While I think Democrats should definitely drop the gun issue, (and the abortion issue as a litmus test) pandering to whites and blue collars will just make them another brand of Republican lite. People will vote for the real thing (Trump) in that case. It's time to go hard left on economics, appealing to millenials, poor minorities and the working class. Stop identity politics altogether (pandering to any segment, be it minorities of whites) and focus on issues that will bring everyone together.
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Frozen Sky Ever Why
ShadowOfTheWave
Junior Chimp
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Posts: 8,637
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« Reply #1 on: January 07, 2017, 12:36:38 PM »

Become more moderate and pro white and more blue collar and nominate someone more like Jim Webb and less like Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders

That won't work. While I think Democrats should definitely drop the gun issue, (and the abortion issue as a litmus test) pandering to whites and blue collars will just make them another brand of Republican lite. People will vote for the real thing (Trump) in that case. It's time to go hard left on economics, appealing to millenials.
Millennials are a hard group to read. Despite their seeming preference for Sanders, a majority of Millennials still favor capitalism over socialism. In fact, you could argue that Millennials are hard left on social issues (weed, gay rights, death penalty) and center left on economics.

Well, no one on the hard left, or at least anyone with major influence, is favoring dropping capitalism for socialism. So that shouldn't be a problem. By hard left I'm referring to the Sanders, Warren wing.
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