Analysis, Commentary, Opinion
02.15.2020
Keep it Positive
This has been a dismaying week in politics for me
as a Democrat.
As the political contest has gotten real, and
because support for the field of candidates is split three to five ways, things
are getting ugly.
It can’t go on like this or there is no chance we
will achieve anything resembling unity in the months ahead.
There is a good chance that at least a third of
democrat voters are going to feel like the nominee of the party does not
represent them, if they refuse to support that person, for whatever reason,
because he or she is a democratic-socialist, or because he or she raises money
from super-pacs, because he or she might be worth a billion dollars or more, because
she is a woman or he is gay, because they are too young or too old, or Jewish
or whatever, then we will have ceded the field, and engineered our own defeat.
For all of us out hear in the audience, now is the
time to listen, and if you are going to speak up, so it to demand that the candidates,
all of them, remain positive.
Admonish your friends if you hear or see them
running down the candidates they do not prefer. There is no place for this. It
is not the time to be pandering to those people who love to put forward the
notion that democrats and republicans are all the same, we are not.
That kind of false equivalency is poison, and the
more often it is repeated, the more people believe it, and the more likely it
is that the orange menace will be reelected.
Do not play into it.
Keep it positive.
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