Re: Democratic Challengers: Starting this thread to Own The Libs!
A) That's gotta suck. Thoughts and prayers.
B) That's possible, although my Leftism doesn't really gain any succor from inside the Beltway. Even without SIP, nobody in Alexandria or Arlington is coming to the May Day parade. The closest you get to the "Left" inside the Beltway is a handful of Scoop Jackson Democrats who kept the faith and didn't go full Wolfowitz in the 90s, and stayed at Brookings writing about inequality. But Thomas Piketty is not walking through the door of the Reston Wegman's. For that I have to rub shoulders with disaffected academics in the Baltimore burbs and angry black intellectuals who have somehow managed not to be taken out by the klansmen in the VA highway patrol. I don't know the meth lab Bernie Bros you seem to, I will give you that. Mine are all sequestered in the LSE library tut tutting over obvious methodological errors by Karl Marx and mainlining Adorno and Gramsci. And those guys are pragmatists who make Jacobin look superficial.
Originally posted by Jimjamesak
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B) That's possible, although my Leftism doesn't really gain any succor from inside the Beltway. Even without SIP, nobody in Alexandria or Arlington is coming to the May Day parade. The closest you get to the "Left" inside the Beltway is a handful of Scoop Jackson Democrats who kept the faith and didn't go full Wolfowitz in the 90s, and stayed at Brookings writing about inequality. But Thomas Piketty is not walking through the door of the Reston Wegman's. For that I have to rub shoulders with disaffected academics in the Baltimore burbs and angry black intellectuals who have somehow managed not to be taken out by the klansmen in the VA highway patrol. I don't know the meth lab Bernie Bros you seem to, I will give you that. Mine are all sequestered in the LSE library tut tutting over obvious methodological errors by Karl Marx and mainlining Adorno and Gramsci. And those guys are pragmatists who make Jacobin look superficial.
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