Kamala Harris asked the question:
“Do we throw up our hands or do we roll up our sleeves?”
I hope that anyone who is thinking of doing the former will come to realize that it doesn’t matter how tired we are, or how disheartening it all is. We’re all in this together. The truth is that what each one of us chooses to do, or not do, matters. I walked away from politics for 2 years after the Supreme Court ruled in Bush v. Gore. We don’t have that luxury this time – not if we value democracy.
So this is me saying that come January 15 or thereabouts, I am going to be rolling up my sleeves. I hope there are going to be a lot of us.
In the meantime…
Let’s create – in this thread – the superset of all the things we think contributed to the losses in November.
Let’s not argue – in this thread – the merits of any of them, or suggest that this one was more important than that one.
Let’s create the superset of what BJ peeps believe contributed to the losses in any meaningful way.
After the holidays…
I’ll put up the superset in a new post, and anyone who is of the mindset that they want to do something constructive can contribute to assessing whether item X is something that we could impact going forward. Not whether we should, but whether we could if we wanted to – we’ll worry about SHOULD in the step after that – after we have eliminated the ones we couldn’t impact even if we wanted to.
Some of the action items will have the possibility of impacting the outcome of special elections and the elections in 2026. Others will have a longer-term focus.
I believe there will be multiple fronts where we can have impact, and different people will be drawn to different ones. There wasn’t just one factor that resulted in the losses, and there won’t be just one way to work for change so next time it goes a different way.
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