"The #Democrats strategy is to let the people suffer until even #conservative voters are mad, the offer a #centrist solution that has a 30% chance of passing"
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That's been the Democratic Party strategy since I've been alive, that's not new. It's a centrist party, not a left party. The "progressive" bloc within it is just slightly left of center, not actually left. No one in office is far-left, and there are just a handful of more-left-than-center.
The #propaganda of persecution claimed by the conservatives only really works if you understand what they mean in the context of this political spectrum outlined.
Most "right" politicians don't fall slightly right of center because the center is #Democrat space, you have to start going waaaaay over to the right to find most #Republican politicians. They also have an abysmal number of far/fringe-right politicians in actual office.
The solution forward isn't for Democrats to keep capitulating, which drags them further right, it's to finally draw a line and say "no more". We twill show up if they do. We will rally, vote, and donate, but only after we see a genuine shift to the left even at the cost of pain ala shut downs.
The Democrats should be clogging the courts with lawsuits to make themselves unavoidable nuisances. They should put their careers on the cogs of the machine, to paraphrase Mario Savio's famous speech at Berkeley in '64. Grind this machine to a halt, make good trouble whenever and however they can!
Nor can the American people cannot sit idly by while waiting for a political apparatus so unrepresentative of their interests to come to its senses and promise change only when it feels its life is in danger, or when it's already allowed so many of their lives to be put in danger.
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