Just once I'd like to see a Reverse Democrat, a guy who campaigns on donor friendly centrism and starts breaking up tech companies as soon as he gets in office
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Actually, if you're an honest to god lefty and you want to run for office just go undercover. Everyone drones on about bipartisan solutions for 18 months and then half of congress activates like a sleeper cell to do medicare for all
I wish lefties would start standing up for their own ideology and take back control of the "woke" narrative stolen and weaponized by the far right. Wokeness is simply the civility and acceptance that society needs. Stop being bullied into denying your principles!
I've legit considered this before. I'd have to get serious about scrubbing my social media first. Also, I wouldn't be disciplined enough to go through with a whole centrist campaign. I'd be like a bizarro Dr. Strangleove at debates, blurting out Marxist theory uncontrollably.
It's unfortunately easier to do it the other way. You can be a right wing white lady who pretends to be a centrist Democrat and everything you've done in public or online will still kind of fit in with it, but if you're a leftist who pretends to be moderate they'll find your posts in 10 seconds
i imagine it’s a lot easier to lie to everyone about what you believe to get elected so you can enact the policies you “actually believe in” when you don’t *actually believe* in anything. leftists have truly held beliefs, it’d be harder to keep up the lie
I sort of died inside with the start of the Obama admin, when I realized this actually wasn't the secret strategy of the Democratic Party ("we have achieved power, we will now enact New Deal 2, damn the consequences")
Trump 2 was the salt in the wound, as they executed their fucked up version
Reverse Democratic Senator: First elected 67 years ago for being reliably spineless, is wheeled into the chamber on a gurney after "a routine checkup" and promptly introduces a wealth tax
I suspect much of the reason he's so hated by people of so many different political alignments despite his crimes being not significantly worse than other presidents (especially his immediate successor) and seeming to be pretty cool in his later life is because he advanced too many leftist causes.
Or someone sneaking into gop by running as just "I'm a Christian " but then the plot twist is they actually respect that peace-loving, caring, respectful commie's view points
The party campaign consultants and donation bundlers love that though. Those weak-willed candidates usually have the primary in the bag before voters even know who's going to be on the ballot.
He didn't break up tech companies, but Joe Biden did this. Ran as a centrist, then won the trifecta and the push through the leftiest stuff his caucus would allow. It was awesome. If we'd had a 53-47 Senate majority, it would have been even better.
yeah the key of this approach is to pass super popular legislation asap and then run on that record. people like leftism when you actually do it, they don't like namby-pamby means-tested bullshit.
but free school lunch for kids? popular, effective, and unassailable without sounding like an asshole.
And yet they ran on corn nuts and state fairs instead.
Did you know the free student lunch effort in MN was originally spearheaded by Philando Castile's mom, to help keep his legacy alive? Thought that was an amazing response to incredible personal tragedy. Valerie Castile for VPOTUS!
Jimmy Carter was kind of like this... He pretended to be racist so that the racists would vote him in, but once he was elected he was actually super progressive
The flaw of posturing as a centrist moderate is that a lot of people with left wing sensibilities will hate you, yes.
Was starting to pay off for biden but then he decided to do a genocide too, so.
To head off both the resist libs and the fuming leftists: the administration was ineffective in many ways and is so morally stained that even if it weren’t they’d still all be going to hell, but definitely none of the big businesses backing ole Biden thought they were signing up for Lina Khan’s FTC.
Upset on initial read but if we're letting "administration" do a lot of heavy lifting, I can see the vision. FTC and NLRB for some examples were far better than the median D electeds, the man himself, or most of the other departments with name recognition. Enough to make the case but not to win it
He also straight up said he'd veto universal healthcare and after 50 years in DC seemed stymied as to how to get around the opinion of the Parliamentarian.
Me in 10 years, running as a run-of-the mill half-charismatic coporatist Democrat but starts seizing and nationalizing railroads and major factories day 1 in office. Police lose the right to unionize by day 7, Billionaires start disappearing by day 30
“Drink their liquor” was the rule of thumb when I was a reporter on my college paper. It was understood that you then wrote whatever the hell you planned on writing anyway. “Take the bribe and fuck them” was the blunter version.
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And it's why I get frustrated at dems who want culture war stuff to be the tip of the political messaging.
Trump 2 was the salt in the wound, as they executed their fucked up version
But I can't afford to campaign and doubt I could censor myself enough.
I hope you understand.
but free school lunch for kids? popular, effective, and unassailable without sounding like an asshole.
Did you know the free student lunch effort in MN was originally spearheaded by Philando Castile's mom, to help keep his legacy alive? Thought that was an amazing response to incredible personal tragedy. Valerie Castile for VPOTUS!
*immediately passes the Billionaire Abolition Act*
I'm extremely here for it, in case that was unclear
Was starting to pay off for biden but then he decided to do a genocide too, so.
Trump had Andrew Jackson and now William McKinley. Fitting.
So I was taken back to see FDR hung upon the wall when Biden was around.
That said, for his surprise wins, there were still expected problems.
Eh nukes Nazis and doesn’t afraid of anyone