MirthJuly25_2016 - The Monday Morning Memo

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“Is the progressive movement an effective vehicle for progressive policy? I think the answer is very clearly, “No.” Take universal healthcare, the baseline progressive political idea. If we were to build that in this country, we would need wide populist agreement, a massive reworking of a major economic sector and yes, that would take winning over Republicans to maintain it. So in the real world, are we trying to do any of that? Fuck no. We’re calling each other racist and white supremacist and transphobes and dividing ourselves into smaller and smaller and smaller and smaller groups.

Progressive culture is not about accomplishing anything politically, it’s about expressing your identity via an endless public litmus test. I believe in progressive policy. But I just cannot continue this game that punishes you if you don’t pretend black is white and up is down. Healthy movements focus on winning allies, not punishing dissent. The irony is we have NO IDEA how easy we could have it. If we were an actual movement about standing up for working people and delivering structural change? We would win every election forever. The majority of people in both parties understand that the system is failing to deliver. But the American people know what progressives really are. A bunch of condescending wokescolds who are toxic to be around. It’s why we lose so many elections. I’ve looked the other way for a decade and I just can’t anymore.”

- Brianna Wu, May 12, 2024

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