2026 Elections: To the Midterms and Beyond!

[Kepler]

The Overton Window for the US currently all but excludes the Left. Nor have we ever had a Hard Left federally. Eugene V. Debs is the closest we have ever gotten.

The Schumer Dems are Center-Right on economics and Center-Left on social issues.

Bernie and AOC are garden variety Center-Leftist on economics.

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

Sigh.
I was just trying to lend some perspective on why people might start to feel as if they don't have a party to identify with.
As per usual the responses are largely Ad Hominems and False Equivalencies.

Sorry the facts don't agree with your feelings.

 

[Boston_E]

Sorry the facts don't agree with your feelings.

Really? We were talking about your folks feelings that they don't have a political party right now (which very much mirrors my folks btw) - and 1 and 2 posts later people are throwing out crap about white supremacists and BS about black people not being people? Get real. Comparing a govt run grocery store to the bipartisan chips act? You don't think that's a false equivalency?

 

[psych]

Sigh.
I was just trying to lend some perspective on why people might start to feel as if they don't have a party to identify with.
As per usual the responses are largely Ad Hominems and False Equivalencies.

I have validated your perspective more than once without ad hominem attacks. I also said before I’m cool with you since you vote for Democrats right now when it matters most. I simply disagree with your argument. I believe those people exist, as I have no reason to doubt you, but the answer is still obvious. It’s fascism on the right and half-assed running of democracy on the left. Someone can feel like they’re without a party right now and still recognize how fucking obvious it is to vote for every Democrat from President to dog catcher. If someone is wavering on that, I could give a fuck that he or she feels s/he is without a party.

 

[rufus]

Yes. And giving billions to businesses and rich people is ok, but giving millions to the poor is socialism.

Well, those people are useful contributers to society, unlike those deadwood, free-loading po' folk.

 

[rufus]

Sigh.
I was just trying to lend some perspective on why people might start to feel as if they don't have a party to identify with.
As per usual the responses are largely Ad Hominems and False Equivalencies.

Uh huh

New name, same old shit.

 

[rufus]

Not the chips act, you frickin' moron. Donnie using taxpayer dollars to buy a percentage of Intel, and how many other companies now?

State owned control of the means of production, there's a name for that. Can't quite put my finger on it........

Edit: 30 companies at last count. But that's all good, right?

 

[ticapnews]

The Overton Window for the US currently all but excludes the Left. Nor have we ever had a Hard Left federally. Eugene V. Debs is the closest we have ever gotten.

The Schumer Dems are Center-Right on economics and Center-Left on social issues.

Bernie and AOC are garden variety Center-Leftist on economics.

I am amused when people call Bernie a Communist because h wants to tax Wall Street. No, a Communist would be taking a bulldozer to Wall Street and building community housing there instead,

 

[MissThundercat]

Bill was called a pinko commie socialist.
Hillary was dubbed a pinko commie socialist.
Schumer has been dubbed a pinko commie socialist.
Kamala was dubbed a pinko commie socialist.
Hillary Scholten, who is fairly centrist, has been called a pinko commie socialist.