maybe that's the problem when people's idea of "the far left" begins and ends with Conner Kilpatrick and Zaid Jilani
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It did come primarily from the center, but the difference is, those centrists have no movement and no power.
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Well... they have power. But very limited ELECTORAL power, anyway. Unlike the socialists. Bernie Sanders has far more power than Mark Penn.
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And thank God for that---but, you know: great power, great responsibility.
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There is genuine fear from many that we will backslide on social or 'identity' issues to win WWC votes. It's happened before.
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Concretely: I'm thinking of Clinton first, FDR second (for FDR, emphasis on the birth of the FHA.)
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Abstractly: any time people say, "don't focus on specific groups' needs, focus on our collective needs," disadvantaged IDs get screwed.
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and a big part of it is that universalist rhetoric is the easiest route to political power in the US. Obama used it heavily.
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but blk ppl trusted Obama to not leave us out or forget about us in designing those universalist policies, bc 1st blk president.
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so how do you replicate that level of trust that we won't be forgotten w\o 1st blk Prez or blk candidate? Explicit "ID Pol" is one way.
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obviously that's specific to blk ppl but idk I imagine Obama built (& in some cases betrayed) similar trust with other disadvantaged groups.
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I agree with you on the worry over backsliding, trust, & the potential for "universalist" [?] policies to fail us in some particular areas.
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