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In reply to the discussion: Those taking a strict "no Dem must be primaried" position may have a point... [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)activists for climate justice and against environmental racism, and the peace movement-all of which are significant groups in this country, all of whom want this party to advance a bold, unapologetic program of change and to stop imposing unneeded limits on ourselves by making a point of announcing we were "pro-business" (the party had never been "anti-business'-it had simply taken the view in the past that business was one part of life but not more important than everything else), or on being "tough on crime" (I don't think I need to remind you what "Law and Order" has been code for since Nixon) or on continuing military intervention in the Arab/Muslim world when we've all known since at least 2004 that it's a pointless waste of resources and caused a pointless loss of hundreds of thousands of lives.
We really, truly need to let ourselves out of all of those restraints as a party.
We can be for defending this country without insisting on getting into all these conflicts in other places where we can't have any positive effect.
We can be for a strong economy without accepting that everyone and everything has to be subservient to what the corporations want.
And we can deal with crime without mass incarceration and mandatory minimums and all the ruined lives those have cost.
That's some of what some of us are talking about.
Those ideas should be a legitimate part of our discussion as Democrats.