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This week, when progressive champions Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and
Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) voted in a Senate committee to approve the
thoroughly unqualified Ben Carson to head the Housing and Urban
Development Department, there was little criticism from established
liberal organizations in Washington. But the grassroots lit up ―
blasting them on Twitter, Facebook, in calls to their offices, and in
countless emails to Huffington Post reporters, asking us what on earth
their one-time heroes were doing.
Warren clearly felt the backlash. “OK, let’s talk about Dr. Ben Carson,”
she began a lengthy Facebook post on Wednesday.
That the votes came just days after millions poured into the streets in
more than 650 women’s marches on Saturday made it that much more
jarring. Those marches, after all, had not been sparked by Planned
Parenthood, or the Democratic Party, or unions, or MoveOn.org, even if
they did pitch in to help once it got going. Instead, they came from
regular, angry people ― people who may try to replace the ones in power.
“It’s going to motivate a lot of people to activism and to run for
office,” said Fran DeBenedictis, a 63-year-old retired New York City
cop, as she scanned the crowds at Saturday’s march in D.C. She was one
of hundreds of thousands who marched in the city that day, armed with a
homemade sign denouncing sexism and homophobia ― amazingly, it had a
photo of her on it from a women’s march decades earlier ― and joined by
two friends who rode in on a bus from Long Island, New York. This, she
said, motioning to the scene, is what brings change.
“I’ve been doing this for 40 years,” she said. “It works.”
full:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/womens-march-democrats-base_us_588a490ce4b061cf898d7e98?
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