On the bright side, it's not 2004. It's 2016, we know how to win elections and what success tastes like. We lost perhaps the most important election in a long time though, and there are consequences. Namely the successes of the past. A lot of that will be gone before the Fourth Of July next year.
So what do we do? Sit online and smugly pat ourselves on the back, call people bigots, etc? Yea we can do some of that, I probably will a few times this year and next year. But I'm hoping we mainly look in our communities and figure out what we can do. How can you connect to people in person, not over the phone/online. How can you take your party back. The Clinton era is over, thank fucking god. The "Obama Coalition" has to decide whether it's going to be a coalition, what that means, and what it's willing to do going forward. I'm not going to mince words: a lot of people let the president down. He had our backs for 8 years and now those 8 years don't mean much of anything. It's over. Now we have to rebuild, and he's not going to be on the ballot. So...
A lot of people are going to lose things they took for granted. A lot of people didn't know the stakes. Well now we all do, and it's up to us to figure out what's next. As I said I think it's going to start in our communities and neighborhoods.
