Medicare For All & a $15/hr federal minimum wage are not socialism. They’re social justice. They promote the general welfare for all people, and any Black or white person who says they’re socialism is wrong.
If Democrats truly presented what these policies would do for the American people, esp. for poor & low-income ppl, they can win on these policies. $15/hr minimum won in FL, even as Biden/Harris lost there.
If Dems aggressively fund voter turnout, stop playing defense & play offense instead, they can win even in the so-called "solid South," as well as all over the country.
The problem is too many so-called “centrist” Democrats in Congress let their industry funders dictate their position rather than the needs of the people.
Some have said Democrats will lose in Georgia if they run on a progressive agenda. The truth is they will lose if they don’t have a massive turnout of poor & low-income Georgians inspired to vote because they know their vote will change their lives.
Democrats don’t win by being "Republican light." They win by running on an agenda of transformation that is not afraid to be bold & committed to establishing justice for all.

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9 Nov
Biden didn’t say compromise, he said cooperate—and that it’s a choice. Compromise never comes up with Republicans, because they never compromise.
The first stimulus bill was a compromise, and 84% of the money went to corporations. The ACA was a compromise, and Republicans still didn’t vote for it.

The Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, these were all compromises. "3/5 of a person" was a compromise.
Why can’t Democrats pass what is just, fair, and necessary and then fight for it? Use social media. Call on impacted people to march on the Senate & build campaigns in the states of the 3-4 Senators whose support you need.
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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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8 Nov
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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7 Nov
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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6 Nov
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.
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