“The short-term strategy is, win the House of Representatives,” stated the former president, garnering applause. “Because that’s going to be the circuit breaker that will give us control of one major component of the federal government. With that as a bulwark, we’re now able to block some of the worst impulses that are coming out of this White House.”
The former president laid out a two-pronged strategy for Democrats: to reclaim a House majority next year, and to work on honing the party’s messaging in the coming years.
“Long term, let’s tell a story, a better story about who we are as Americans and what we share,” Obama said, according to excerpts shared with CBS News. “We have to tell the story that makes people who feel outside that process, we’ve got to bring them back in.”
When you say ‘demand’, what do you imagine I haven’t done? What power have I failed to wield in the history you’ve imagined for me?
When I say demand more I mean this attitude of “oh well at least they tried” needs to go. And I mean if the people who are running for these positions aren’t working for us then we need to build people to run for those positions ourselves.
And sure I suppose I dont know what kind of work you do or what mutual aid/direct action organizations you’re part of but typically I find people who are espousing what you are are liberals who don’t believe we can do better than some modest reform in the systems we already have on an incredibly modest timeline.
What happened that our expectations for our elected officials is “they could be worse” on a good day? How is that an acceptable standard? Is that the kind of standard you hold yourself to in the things you care about?