The "purity testers" have never gotten their preferred candidates to be the party nominees though. They haven't had a chance to show how they'd fare in a general. And a legitimately anti-war, anti-corruption dem would most certainly fare better than the establishment choices.
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I happen to love the guy, but to claim that he's an example of the purity police's "Unicorn" while they act in a manner that rejects all need to compromise is hypocrisy.
and it's not new either. In 2016, he compared women's bodies to guns and said we shld "compromise." He meant our rights to our own bodies.
And he always says "white" working class, which you "conveniently" miss
And also in that screenshot he literally is talking about latino & black working class
I'm not giving up human rights so white guys can get shit. Forget it. You can try to justify his bullshit in your mind and I can't stop you but he meant exactly what it sounds like.
From all sides the “purity tests” are just what voters will ultimately vote for.
Voters don’t really want an anti-trans bigot and they don’t necessarily want fire-breathing socialists🤷♂️
People polled like a broad Dem agenda *way* more than Repubs’ “eat shit and die” plans but, unfortunately, people voted based on narratives more than looking at the policy pages.
Managing narratives is crucially important for elections!
You can just compare 1:1 and see:
You want to be leaders? Lead
Because god damn did it actually feel authentic
That's literally ALL that should matter to ANYONE!
Here's a link that takes you to the document:
https://democrats.org/where-we-stand/party-platform/
How many times does this have to be drilled into the heads of white cosplay socialist leftists????
Obama, HRC, Biden, and Harris are not neo-liberals. Heck, Biden/Harris literally had the most pro-labor, pro-consumer rights administration in 40+ years.
The whole frigging world of knowledge at our fingertips and people can’t be bothered to look up the term they’re using 🙄
It's exhausting. We can talk about shortcomings and failures without resorting to nonsense.
And the misinformation your spreading about Biden, I assume unknowingly, really just helps corporate interests. They gain by "both parties are the same" nonsense.
The problem with the purity testers is the widespread refusal to participate unless they are in charge so when we do get a good candidate they have no support base inside the party.
Also low local awareness/support.
And that's not even why they lose. It's cuz they don't help before they needed something.
They're that kid who came late asks to borrow your pen & a piece of paper. Oh & look at your book too?
I just can't share your optimism about the voters. :(
I also think Hilary's volunteers & donors would've sat at home & I don't think he had the infrastructure to do it himself
And Bernie had way more grassroots activist support. The only Hillary donors who'd have stayed home were the millionare ones, and we dont want their dirty money.
He ended the drone strikes, if anything was a bit too "anti-war" in Afghanistan, and he strengthened anti-trust institutions.