Already so-called "centrist" Democrats are blaming liberals, claiming they are the reason for losing some House seats and not taking the Senate. This analysis is too shallow. The language of left vs. right vs. centrist is too puny.
Why are they saying Medicare For All is "socialism"? It's not true. 62% of Americans want to raise the minimum wage, and the majority want universal health care.
Democrats don’t need to become "centrist." They need to put lifting the poor & expanding the electorate at the center. Even with this election, millions still did not vote. Democrats need to do across the South what was done in Georgia to expand the electorate.
Democrats need to move away from "is it socialism or not?" Call it what it is: the establishment of justice and promoting the general welfare.
If Democrats take the fact that they lost some House seats & didn’t win the Senate (yet) as a sign that they need to be more centrist rather than looking at how many voters they didn’t reach, how gerrymandering impacted these races,
& how they need deeper work in the South & southwest, moving to this false center rather than moving to fully address the pain & problems & hurt for poor & low-income ppl, esp. now in the middle of a pandemic, they will lose not only elections but the power & moral high ground.

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8 Nov
"In 1860, Southern Democrats, flush with the disproportionate power granted to them by the Electoral College, had torn the Union in half and instigated four years of bloody internecine warfare.
"Mindful of this history, in December, 1868, Senator Aaron Cragin, of New Hampshire, and Representative William Kelley, of Pennsylvania, introduced drafts of what eventually became the Fifteenth Amendment.
“Black voters were meant to be a bulwark against a similar regime arising to again threaten national unity—which is to say that people who had scarcely ever experienced democracy were now among its chief safeguards.
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Love them. Pray for them. But don't stay stuck in the past with them. It's time for America to stop asking Trump to be magnanimous. He will have to confess his sins and the sins of his party to do that and that’s on him, McConnell, etc.
It’s time for America to shake the dust off our feet and move forward together.

Now, just in case you want to know one last time why Republicans are so tied to Trump and his tactics, it's because these are the tactics they have used for the last 52 years.
Read this to understand what’s going on and let’s move forward together:
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7 Nov
This is more than a victory for Biden and Harris. This is a victory for democracy. When all the votes are counted, some 80 million Americans will have voted to end the Trumpism politics of lies, greed and the lust for power.
An unprecedented coalition of American people have said clearly, "We cannot go backwards. We are going forward together."

People did not turnout in record numbers in the midst of a pandemic to vote for a return to normal.
We have elected Biden and Harris to use the power of government to lift up those who have been battered by COVID-19, battered by poverty, and battered by years of Republican extremism.
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Psalm 118

15 
Shouts of joy and victory
    resound in the tents of the righteous:
“The Lord’s right hand has done mighty things!

16 
    The Lord’s right hand is lifted high;
    the Lord’s right hand has done mighty things!”
17
I will not die but live,
and will proclaim what the Lord has done.

18
The Lord has chastened me severely,
but he has not given me over to death.

19
Open for me the gates of the righteous;
I will enter and give thanks to the Lord.
20
This is the gate of the Lord
through which the righteous may enter.

21
I will give you thanks, for you answered me;
you have become my salvation.
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5 Nov
Some commentators keep saying we are evenly divided as a nation, but if the Southern states are all proven voter suppression states and that suppression is hindering votes and elections, do we know if we truly are evenly divided?
(Remember @StaceyAbrams? And even with @ReverendWarnock - the second primary is a form of suppression. We used to have it in NC, and we voted it out.)
And if we are, so what? The Constitution says that if you get 270 electoral votes, then you are the president. Trump won the electoral college in 2016 by only 80,000 votes (and lost the popular vote by millions), but he & Republicans took that as a "mandate" & governed as such.
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Some say Trump is going to do this or that if he loses. But he will be one man when he loses; we are the people. We don’t have to listen to him lie. The people have spoken.
Remember, God is not dead. Trump does not have the final word. Every despot in history has become a mere footnote when exposed.
A white man & a Black woman will win w/ more votes than any ticket ever in the middle of a pandemic, historic voter suppression, after choosing to run on raising min wage to $15/hr & a union, expanding healthcare & addressing systemic racism.
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