So, let’s recap here a bit for some context before I get to the main subject of this post, which is why the Democratic Party desperately needs to far more robustly tap the ranks of organized labor for new insight, support, and leadership in the fight for the future of our Republic.
Your analysis of where we are and what is coming seems really right to me, but I don’t understand how we’d get past the right’s obstruction even with this strategy. Even when we win elections, the republicans block everything we try to do in Congress. And then it ends up feeling like more of the same to people because we compromise or back way down when we can’t pass what we’d actually like to do.
Thanks for the comment. The focus of this strategy is to bring a more “muscular” commitment to rebuilding the working, formerly middle class and thereby winning back a lot of votes that we have lost to the Trump and Republicans recently. Organized labor was at the core of Democratic power through much of the last century until the Reagan era starting in the ‘80’s. Dems dominated the Congress much of that time.
If we can win back some significant percentage of working class voters, we will restore stronger and larger representation in Congress that can enable us to enact policies that move us in more progressive directions.
Your analysis of where we are and what is coming seems really right to me, but I don’t understand how we’d get past the right’s obstruction even with this strategy. Even when we win elections, the republicans block everything we try to do in Congress. And then it ends up feeling like more of the same to people because we compromise or back way down when we can’t pass what we’d actually like to do.
Thanks for the comment. The focus of this strategy is to bring a more “muscular” commitment to rebuilding the working, formerly middle class and thereby winning back a lot of votes that we have lost to the Trump and Republicans recently. Organized labor was at the core of Democratic power through much of the last century until the Reagan era starting in the ‘80’s. Dems dominated the Congress much of that time.
If we can win back some significant percentage of working class voters, we will restore stronger and larger representation in Congress that can enable us to enact policies that move us in more progressive directions.