I’m sorry, did you just sleep through the last week? This is the nonsense I thought we learned was wasn’t working.
instead of importing your Bronx and DC politics to other states and condescending calling people racist, maybe listen to the locals and let them run the elections that the locals may understand a teeeeny bit more than a bunch of carpetbaggers. I know that’s shocking and unthinkable to you and the DSA coffeehouse buddies, but Stacy Abrams just drop a huge ****ing bag of evidence into your latte.
We as a state just lost a house seat to the Rs and ****ing barely held onto another one after losing another in 2018. Our state senate stayed red because of the stoners and xenophobic and racist attacks that put Omar front and center. The Bronx politics AOC runs on will work in Omar’s district. Get outside the urban areas and those platforms are anchors around a candidate’s neck.
if the state GOP wasn’t running idiots like Jason Lewis and Mike Lindell, the delegation from Minnesota would be Betty McCollum and Omar with five knuckledraggers.
Do you realize that
every candidate who ran on Medicare for All won?
You are swallowing something that isn't real. You think that your brand of Democratic politics, which is great for your corner of the world, is therefore the best brand for the entire country. But that's not so. By your own argument every local race should be run on its peculiarities. That's why burning the rich alive works as a platform in Brooklyn and anaesthetizing gays before stoning them to death works in Mississippi. Fine and dandy. But if angering and driving away moderates by having liberal policies in the national platform is a valid surmise then by your very own argument angering and driving away liberals by having moderates policies in the national platform is also true.
You are stuck on a logical fork. The only possible way off for you while still keeping your personal desire to see your own politics imposed on the whole nation is to argue, "yes, but liberals have nowhere else to go," but, leaving aside whether that argument actually works in practice, it reduces us to seeking the farthest possible right position we can get -- by that thinking we should always run one scintilla of a hair to the left of the GOP candidate.
I would argue that to a less dramatic effect that is indeed exactly what the DNC did from 1980 through about 2006, and the result was (1) methodical displacement of the American political center to the far right, and (2) wholesale slaughter of Dems
anyway. Your conclusion leads to America continuing to move to the right forever because
both parties are. The Plutes love that -- it means they don't even care who wins. So, they give to both sides on the understanding that both national parties and their enablers and pundits and the national media all lead with the narrative: we must never, ever propose anything economically more liberal than one inch to the left of the last Republican plank.
And that's how we got here, hanging on the precipice of fascism.
