To continue to build power, movements must diversify their tactics, make clear demands, put pressure on the newly elected and keep building community-based networks, movement experts said. And they must be unrelenting.
“Elections themselves don’t achieve what it is that people want,” said Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, an African American studies professor at Princeton University and the author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation. “They set the table for the possibility of change.”
Just to bring attention to something.
I remember fighting tooth and nail with Centrist Corporate / AIPAC Dems about how unviable Bernie-tinted progressives are in battleground, ruby-red states.
Well, we basically got an AOC with folksy Christian charm winning in Texas. We got a Muslim progressive pushing for Medicare For All elected in the battleground state of Michigan that went Trump last cycle. We had a progressive Sanders-backed candidate oust Republican Susan Collins in Maine. All state-wide races.
It’s time to deliver on the progressive vision. These next two years with all these new seats and media attention, Democrats have to continue selling and persuading the electorate on the Sanders vision of the future, for we now have the momentum.
This is only the beginning. The fight is far from over. We need to keep pushing at all levels.
Centrists needed to stall progress for 10 years while people like me suffocated. The fact that I am still alive is because I got lucky not because this is sustainable.
I wonder if they are done sabotaging progress now?