First: Fuck white racist voters. It’s a waste of time to court them at all, at all, at all. That means not giving one damn inch to them. They can get over it or rot in their own racist hell. I don’t give a good goddamn about any of them. So please don’t tell me about abandoning People of Color in pursuit of economic fairness and opportunity.
The Actual Big Lie Is This: that we cannot have both economic opportunity and fairness and an expansion of the rights of People of Color, LGBTQ rights, Immigrant rights, Women’s rights.
We Democrats are not weak! We are capable of doing all these things at once. Anyone who tells you otherwise either:
- lacks faith in the strength of progressives (Hello? We made the weekend a thing. We got women the vote. The Civil Rights movement? WE ARE NOT WEAK.)
- lacks conviction in our values.
- or has an agenda or constituency to please.
There are millions of us, all colors, all religions and none, all ages. We are the future of this country, we are darker skinned than previous generations and we have solutions and ideas that work for people.
Don’t let people tell you that, yeah, we can protect your voting rights, but increasing minimum wage is a strategy to appeal to white blue collar voters! That’s a lie!
Don’t let them tell you that you get the right to safe, legal reproductive care at the cost of pay equality! That’s bullshit.
Don’t let them say we can save public education but you’ll have to live with redlining. That’s a goddamn lie!
And don’t fucking tell me I cannot support a fair economic playing field and rights for my fellow Democrats of all races, creeds, colors, countries of origin, sexual orientation, genders! I didn’t fall off the turnip truck yesterday! If the Democratic party cannot support identity politics and economic opportunity for all on a fair playing field then why does it even exist?
What good is the right to vote if you cannot use your vote to get the government to aid getting you out of poverty? What is the point of a decent public education if it ends in a redlined ghetto or barrio that you can’t leave?