What the “centrist” Dems are selling is the idea that in order to have civil rights like choice and gay marriage,
we have to give up on economic issues, like living wages, free healthcare and affordable education.
My hope is that progressives start to be a big enough block of the vote that the
we have to give up on economic issues, like living wages, free healthcare and affordable education.
My hope is that progressives start to be a big enough block of the vote that the
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With neocons, every supporter thinks they are a warrior in a fight for “freedom.”
Progressives use 60s methods of political action. Neocons use legislation at every level of government to destroy democracy.
In essences moderates offer more empty promises that will result in voter apathy.
My hope is that Dems start to embrace the economic issues as central to the social issues.
Because gay marriage is an economic issue. So is choice.
And at base, I think more and more people are asking themselves what their government should be doing with
and that government SHOULD be making life doable for the masses! That’s exactly what it SHOULD be doing.
Not just tax cuts and foreign wars. Housing, food
THAT is what will make life great for Americans. THAT is what we want.
And we only get what we want when more of us vote for it than oppose it.