Dont Soul-Search. Stiffen Your Backbone, from Bill de Blasio: As a Democrat, Im disappointed in last Tuesdays results. But as a progressive, I know my party need not search for its soul -- but rather, its backbone. The truth is that the Democratic Party has core values that are very much in sync with most Americans. We believe in taking dead aim at the income inequality that infects our communities -- from big cities like New York, to small towns and rural areas across the United States. We believe that the wealthy should pay their fair share so we can lift people out of poverty and grow our middle class. And we believe in rules that prevent big corporations and Wall Street banks from unraveling workers pensions, suppressing employees wages and benefits, and rigging the system to reward wealth instead of work. This year, too many Democratic candidates lost sight of those core principles -- opting instead to clip their progressive wings in deference to a conventional wisdom that says bold ideas arent politically practical. To working people, it showed Democratic weakness -- a weak commitment to the change desperately sought by struggling families, and a weak alternative to a Republican philosophy that has held America back. Bold, progressive ideas win elections.
Posted on: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 15:21:14 +0000
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