Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) speaks at Netroots Nation conference on Saturday: “I don’t want to bring a chair to an old table. This is the time to shake the table. This is the time to redefine that table. Because if you’re going to come to this table, all of you who have aspirations of running for office. If you’re not prepared to come to that table and represent that voice, don’t come, because we don’t need any more brown faces that don’t want to be a brown voice. We don’t need black faces that don’t want to be a black voice. We don’t need Muslims that don’t want to be a Muslim voice. We don’t need queers that don’t want to be a queer voice. If you’re worried about being marginalized and stereotyped, please don’t even show up because we need you to represent that voice.”
Pressley is stuck in identity politics mode and doesn’t need to carve out a new protected class of special citizens such as “women of color.” This is all exciting, and beats the devil out of hearing about collusion, obstruction, and impeachment. There are only 474 days until the electorate gets a chance to clean them all out of congress but many hope they continue to push the Democrats more and more to the Left in a Right Wing voter duel.
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