First in a series that will be as regular as possible.
I feel it best to state my thesis up front: To win, the left must stop blaming the opposite side for tricking America and start looking at itself.
"What do I mean?" you cry, "You cannot be serious. We are in the right, we cannot look at ourselves. It's those gay-hating, gun-toting, Bible-loving crazy corporate puppets who have tricked the poor, poor average American into believing that Republicans stand for them. We Democrats, though we altruistically support them, have suffered from their cheap, low trickery!"
Really?
Like many angry progressives, I believed this easy way out at first. But then I went back and took a long hard look at the election.
What did I discover? We got beat, we have to accept it, we can't blame anyone else, and we need to start accepting a lot more to win.
What do I mean? Keep reading and keep an open mind.
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