After this Election

Here’s the plan. 

  • There’s no going back for the DPG. Because Stacey Abrams has performed so well as a gubernatorial candidate, there’s no turning back on the sort of campaign she waged across the state. Next Dem guv prospect in 2022 must do more of what she did, cannot turn their back on PoC and women voters, and must hit more counties more frequently. The Abrams model mostly works in lieu of a Mid/western-style labor-driven model, and will define us for election cycles to come. 
  • No one expected white women here to break with the GOP, even for a woman, and it was lopsidedly 70-20 for Kemp. Right now, I ascribe it to the value system of Colin Woodard’s “Deep South nation”. I need the white women and men who voted for Abrams or ran for office as the #Resistance to find a way over the coming years to help break that value system, by any means necessary, because it’s been a burden on our state and is the reason we can’t have nice things here like strong labor unions and a minimum wage increase. I ask you to help reform our state’s culture to feel more like the Mid/west than the Deep South. Start UU churches, start labor union locals, start more organizations to change your community and challenge authority. 
  • Georgia Democrats must come together like never before, more frequently than ever before, conduct more business than ever before, in more hub cities than ever before, with more goals than ever before, with more action than ever before, and at an earlier time than ever before (preferably before the primary). Reform of the State Convention must be a top priority for anyone who wants to reform our party.

tl;dr: Organize, Organize, Organize.

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