“The Democrats need to show up and show out for the election” saying sounds like a broken record literally. The Dem formula is as dated as records, 8 Tracks or cds and we wonder why we can’t win. To be a national political party you need a functioning structure on the local, state, regional, and national levels. You also need inclusion at the decision making table and the lines of communication between everyday people and the leadership should be give and take; listen and then speak.
We know the Trump-type people are the new version of the TEA Party that has taken over the Republican Party. Good Country Club business people are taking a back seat to country people with clubs who mean business and I don’t mean Callaway golf clubs.
The Democrats have identity problems of our own. The new energy is the progressive movement of Bernie Sanders. He received more millennials votes than Hillary and Trump combined. But like the TEA Party, the Progressives aren’t a political entity designed to win elections. They are a social change movement with politics being one of their methods.
Does the end justify the means? My Republican friends, who are decent conservatives, look the other way as Trump and his wrecking crew uses every dirty trick and technique to take power. I still take my hat off the Jeb Bush and those who said if that is what it takes to win I won’t do it.
If I had my way or a say, I would hope that the new Democrat Party continues the current commitment to all Americans by including a representation of various groups at the table. That’s a touchy subject with southern Black folks. The successful Democrat Party of old was an uneasy coalition of Blacks and southern Dixiecrats. Well, those rural White Dems are gone for the most part but their numbers can be replaced by lighting a fire under Blacks who don’t vote and attracting Whites who are too intelligent to cosign Trump’s destruction of this country.
When President Trump says “we,” he is talking about his supporters; not all Americans. Over the last 20 years, some Republicans have started to act on issues and policies with little to no input from anyone who didn’t vote for them… To The Victor The Spoils. We learned in junior high that once elected an official represented all of the people. I worked in three Democrat congressional offices and we had Republican staffers in all three…Black, White, rich, poor…I was the poor one. I bet you could put every Black staffer in the current Georgia delegation in a minivan comfortably and few would be above the entry level.
For years, I thought Rep. Sanford Bishop’s cool political approach should have been the model for the next generation of leaders. This blog has always said that Senator Barack Obama learned more from watching Bishop than anyone else at those weekly Congressional Black Caucus lunch meetings. Bishop should be the vocal leader of moderates in the nation. I personally think an active Bishop could have tipped the election to Hillary in three states.
I am a moderate and Bishop brings my views to the decision-making table. Who is the evolution of Sanford Bishop? We aren’t talking about a Bishop clone because, to be honest, Bishop is too nice.
I am going to Jarrod for next gen leadership. South Georgia attorney Jarrod Burch should be recruited into the public service of some type—judge, congressman, behind the scenes rainmaker. If you think about it, he is similar to Bishop (smart, HBCU student body president, nice law school grad, fraternity man, people like him). Burch is also a great father and military man.
During the governor race between the two Staceys, Burch and I talked about the candidacy of his law school classmate Stacey Evans (that’s loyalty) but was always positive and respectful about Stacey Abrams. If the Dems are to be successful in November 2018 and November 2020, we need a comprehensive approach to reach folks who are registered but vote infrequently. Abrams can’t nor shouldn’t do it alone.
Honestly, we need a new network like this blog’s spinoff OPEN 20/20. That jewelry store has the slogan “He went to Jared.” Well, the Dems in my region need to go to Jarrod for some new political blood..brainy with street credibility like Obama. There are things that need to be done that the traditional organizations and apparatus aren’t built to do. To make it plain, regular folks need to speak with regular folks about the importance of being active in policy, government and social change….voting is just one part of it.
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