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Janay DeLeone's avatar

Me too. He's no pelosi that's for sure. Why aren't they fighting?

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Hendrik Gideonse's avatar

I'm totally mystified. ActBlue is also implicated because the pleas for money from them are so consistently grounded on appeals to negative, corrosive emotions and fundamentally and, often, false premises. I spent a lot of time providing unsolicited feedback to the party simply swallowed by it with never a response. When they finally did ask for my response, they patently ignored what I sent; instead they massaged our input when DNC was "planning" next moves, and in doing so showed they had no idea what strategic planning was; they simply tallied our responses into 'categories' they arbitrarily adopted and reported. They treated our input as if they had asked for a poll from us randomly formulated with zero attempt at undertaking a strategic audit of the present situation, i.e, Trump's anti-Republic win. When I received their 'work' five weeks after I responded, I had high hopes.

I spent three days over a weekend, drafting a detailed critique. I have no idea it was received because their procedure for accepting material by e-mail was so arcane, and five political people who I sent backup copies to had similar incomprehensible automatic messaging reception systems; suffice to say that of the five, some highly placed, never even acknowledged getting them. The leadership is simply unresponsive to the working stiffs, despite our experience/background, imagination, or commitment.

I'm the first child of two immigrants, almost all of us academic or social service professionals. America's descent down the tubes is excruciating to me. .

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