Here’s an excerpt from David’s interview:
John, did you see the Teen Vogue story about David Hogg and Leaders We Deserve?
Here’s an excerpt from David’s interview:
We have two major problems in our party: We have a courage problem and we have a competition problem. Because we don't challenge the status quo or people who are in safer blue seats nearly enough, we [end up with certain] candidates who get really comfortable. And if there's anything that I've learned from activism and organizing, it's that comfortable people — especially politicians — do not change.
They will tell you nice things. They will say that they care about your issue or whatever you're fighting for. They will give you as much lip service as possible, but ultimately, they are not necessarily going to fight for it. One of the only things across the board that will make a politician do the right thing, regardless of whether or not they support you, is by threatening the one thing all of them [seem to] care about, which is their job.
Everybody in our party wants to do two things at the same time that are incompatible: They want to win and gain majorities, but they also want to do that with the same cast of characters that brought us here. The reason they talk so much about focusing on our messaging is because you can change the messaging without changing the messenger. But the reality is, given the fact that we've talked for about 15 years about how we have a messaging problem, it's gone beyond a messaging problem. It is a messenger problem.
John, Leaders We Deserve is working hard to not only change the message, but the messengers. Can you pitch in $5 to elect the next generation of Democrats?
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