I agree. I don’t think the actual silent majority thinks “that guy’s too far right” or “that lady’s too far left,” they ask “which one’s gonna help with my problems?”

Just look at all the special elections earlier in the year that flipped seats. They’re definitely scared we’re waking up

We need a Left version of the Tea Party

People in those red states will never vote for anyone with a ‘D’ next to their name, no matter how much they agree with them.

Asking honestly… how do we do this?

I think it’s already happening. People are tired of the current leadership who have proven themselves deaf to the needs of the working class. They’ve just been stringing people along with performativism and virtue signaling, but people have definitely woken up to that in recent years.

Also, establishment Dems’ catastrophic failures in last election followed by a series of progressive wins is a good signal. Progressives are demonstrating their electability, and that momentum will only build from here on. It will become increasingly harder for Democratic Party leadership to stifle the progressive caucus.

Also, the new DNC chairman is at least nominally progressive. We’ll see how he does in two years. Till then all we can do is hope and wait and vote.

That’s why perpetual whiplash is baked into the system. People get complacent when things are going good, which is when the opposition’s momentum is at its strongest.

4-8 years later the other side is the one that gets complacent as their opposition gets fired up.

Rinse and repeat.

post conflict plan is socialist reconstruction & infrastructure but most liberals aren’t ready to accept that yet, they’d rather have oligarchy because it means they won’t have to give up their gentrified apartment

Maybe not long term, but there was a noticeable uptick in claims being approved from what I recall. Whether you think Luigi was right or wrong, it’s hard to deny people are alive today because of him.

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It directly resulted in thousands of claims being granted that would otherwise have been denied, literally saving thousands of lives. It got my dad’s heart surgery approved.

You can, if you’re appealing to the 1% of each side

How do we/ why would we appeal to people who are literally a combination of mind-bogglingly corrupt Traitors, Racists, and Pedophiles? What kind of a compromise do you cut with them? They are only allowed to do a little graft, treason, racism, and child raping? Just regulate it, to keep it at a reasonable level?

MAGA needs to be mercilessly crushed, and purged from our government and society. They don’t get to contribute to the future of America. We allowed them to do that after the Civil War, and it led to this. We can’t make that mistake again.

MAGAs rise and reign has been ugly, and we need to make their decline and demise even uglier, so future generations will learn harsh lessons from it.

She must be a very unhappy woman.

Waiting for a perfect candidate with a squeaky clean record is an exercise in futility.

The only way someone gets old enough to run for political office while having enough knowledge and experience to actually be capable of doing the job, without having ever made any mistakes that one’s opponents can dig up for their mudslinging campaigns, is to take no risks, be non-controversial, a chameleon, totally performative and insincere. That’s how you end up with these robotic-sounding DNC stars.

What’s important is whether someone learned from their mistakes and has shown themselves capable of improving. There’s this weird essentialist idea floating around in people’s heads that once someone has made a mistake, that mistake is fundamentally who they are as a person and they should be judged for it for the rest of their lives. And honestly, if that mentality takes root and grows, it could lead to a very dystopian world. It’s just one more part to add to the total surveillance state we’re already sliding towards.

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