“The Democratic Party can either continue to serve its corporate donors, or it can build and sustain coalitions that can actually win,” says Naomi Klein, the author of
No Is Not Enough and
This Changes Everything.
She adds: “
The stakes have never been scarier -- but we also haven't seen this much potential for a truly transformative progressive politics in decades. If Democrats want to be a part of it, they should give this report a full and honest airing and act on its findings.”
The report that Naomi Klein is referring to -- “Autopsy: The Democratic Party in Crisis” -- is already making waves. It was launched by Action for a Progressive Future, the nonprofit umbrella for RootsAction.org.
Released last week, the Autopsy report
belongs to everyone.
To boost the impact of the Autopsy as
a tool and catalyst for transforming the Democratic Party and the country, please
click here to quickly send an email message to the Democrat who represents your district in the House of Representatives.
In less than a minute, you can
help light a fire under a party establishment that, rhetoric aside, often tunes out people of color, young people and the working class. The Autopsy (which you can access via the Background listing below) spells out solutions to the key problems that led to the disastrous election of President Trump.
“To defeat the barbaric Republican agenda, we need to understand how the Democratic Party failed to mobilize progressive forces and enabled right-wing extremists to gain power,” says syndicated columnist Bill Fletcher Jr., former president of TransAfrica. “The information, analysis and recommendations in this Autopsy report can help us to learn lessons that are essential to grasp if we're going to turn this country around.”
Whoever your Democratic congressperson is, she or he must read the Autopsy report. Because you’re a constituent, you’re in the best position to make that happen -- and to ask for a clear response.
To participate in this grassroots upsurge, please click here.
“As this ‘Autopsy’ makes clear, consistently winning elections requires us to reorient our National Democratic Party from Washington-based corporate minimalism to full-throated grassroots populism,” says Jim Hightower, the writer of
Hightower Lowdown and former twice-elected Texas Agricultural Commissioner.
He adds: “After all,
voter turnout is based on voter turn-on -- so, rather than stale robo-calls,
let's give to working class people of different backgrounds a slate of progressive candidates and proposals that make them want to elect Democrats.”
To see some of the exciting initial media coverage of the Autopsy, or to read the executive summary or the full report, please click on the links below.
And please don’t forget to
send your representative in Congress a quick email via our special webpage about “Autopsy: The Democratic Party in Crisis.”
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-- The RootsAction.org Team
P.S. RootsAction is an independent online force endorsed by Jim Hightower, Barbara Ehrenreich, Cornel West, Daniel Ellsberg, Glenn Greenwald, Naomi Klein, Bill Fletcher Jr., Laura Flanders, former U.S. Senator James Abourezk, Frances Fox Piven, Lila Garrett, Phil Donahue, Sonali Kolhatkar, and many others.
Background:
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“AUTOPSY: The Democratic Party in Crisis”
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Katrina vanden Heuvel, The Washington Post: “Have Democrats Learned their Lesson? There’s Reason for Hope.”
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Jake Johnson, Common Dreams: “To Address Historic Failures, Autopsy Urges ‘Progressive Reboot’ for Democrats”
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William Greider, The Nation: “What Killed the Democratic Party?”
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Christopher Cook, The Progressive: “Can the Democrats Save Themselves?”
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