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JCanete

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12. yes, that's what I mean. Fighting at the state level is by itself, likely to be a losing battle.
Tue Dec 27, 2016, 01:24 PM
Dec 2016

It's one fought in the Republican appointed courts against republican legislation, when the battle should be waged by getting the people outraged and engaged in their democracy.

Our party's problem(generous read here) is that we keep thinking that we are going to win in-spite of the scale-tipping. We don't want to sound like whiners pre-election and damage our chances. Clinton even went so far as to legitimize our system by trying to paint Trump with a sore-loser vibe if he disavowed it in the face of a loss, because she was so certain that she had this in the bag. Now come post election, we can't challenge our rigged elections without ourselves, looking like sore-losers.

Its a mantle we need to take up and not let up on, whether we are winning or losing in the poles, and we need to do it uniformly as a party...not just as isolated voices expressing concern here and there.

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