Thread by @docrocktex26

As if simply campaigning more in WI is gonna change the facts that 1) the WI GOP engages in widespread race based voter suppression and 2) the overwhelmingly White electorate created by suppression was too susceptible to racist/sexist propaganda to vote D by majority in 2016. 😒

https://twitter.com/KellyO/status/1094704739122589699

They already hate you and your extra campaigning in WI, in advance.

These rust belt states aren’t turning red b/c White Democrats don’t campaign there enough. Pretending that we can solve the lack of diversity and preponderance of disenfranchisement and discrimination in WI, MI, PA or MN by simply shouting louder at the folk doing it is dumb af.

I’m not impressed or amused by this shit.

They still don’t have an adequate, non-toxic water supply in Flint, MI. They literally make these states inhospitable to Black ppl on purpose but folk still have the nerve to think the issue is centered on not having enough rust belt campaign stops. GTFOH.

https://twitter.com/escapedmatrix/status/1094938740483604480?s=21

I don’t wanna hear shit else about WI unless it includes a workable legislative solution to the GOP’s racist disenfranchisement that’s intentionally targeted at CORE Democratic constituencies. If we aren’t on the correct battlefield we’re surrendering.

https://twitter.com/docrocktex26/status/862263496792317952?s=21

While we’re on the subject, how much did Jill Stein campaign in WI? How much work did she have to do on the ground there to convince thousands of mostly WWC ppl to throw their votes in the trash and the entire election to Trump and Putin? Won’t be surprised if it wasn’t much...🙄

How much time are y’all willing to spend chasing these people who already told you they don’t want what the fuck you’re selling? If the answer is more than what you plan to spend on increasing youth and POC turnout and ending voter suppression I can’t take you seriously. Period.

Milwaukee, WI is the most racially segregated metro area in the country. Understand where you’re campaigning and be ready to address the systemic obstacles placed in the Democratic base’s way before you get there. jsonline.com/story/news/loc… via @journalsentinel

Why Is Milwaukee So Bad For Black People? n.pr/1M68Xgg

If you’re running as a Democrat but don’t have a plan in place to address the Jim Crow happening in all of the localities you’re campaigning in or the voter suppression that necessarily comes w/it, you don’t have a winning strategy or message for 2020 and more stops won’t fix it.

Stacey Abrams told y’all where to focus your time, money & energy but you don’t wanna listen or take heed because doing so requires adoption of an action plan that isn’t appealing to the vaunted WWC voters who created these racist separate and unequal conditions in the 1st place.