Yes, because to many Americans "progressive politician" means black or gay or female.
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US PoliEra 2020 |OT 1| THE ANTI BENGHAZI (Read Staff Post)
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Are you actually implying that -- after months publicly campaigning for and negotiating around principles of expanding Medicare -- Bernie will give up and say "welp, let's try infrastructure"??
If Bernie has a Dem House and a Senate and his own party still refuses to coalesce behind some variance of a medicare-for-all plan, because it's "too expensive", despite the widespread support for it, and the fact that finally Dems have carte-blanche for only the third year since 1994... look, so be it.
Is it not worth trying?? If it fails, then we can talk centrist compromise.
Reagan was just the deliverer:
Two Santa Clauses or How The Republican Party Has Conned America for Thirty Years
Goldwater, however, rejected the "liberalism" of Eisenhower, Rockefeller, and other "moderates" within his own party. Extremism in defense of liberty was no vice, he famously told the 1964 nominating convention, and moderation was no virtue. And it doomed him and his party.
www.commondreams.org
*spoilers* It's now the last 40 years and counting. There's a way to truly break out of the rut, but the slow, methodical incremental way a lot of Dems have favored over those same 40 years is no longer valid given the fleeting amount of time we have left on this rock to mitigate the future climate shitstorm and its wide-ranging societal impacts, where we need to be as far away from the Two Santa Claus Theory as possible.
We are already running behind schedule by a good 20 years. We won't have another 20 (closer to 10) to get our shit together before the bottom falls out.
Literally dropping a bucket of water on a grease fire and running away laughing, rofl
Are we more conservative or does our broken system just give conservatives disproportionately more power?
New Franklin & Marshall Pennsylvania poll: Biden: 22% (-8 from Oct.) Sanders: 15% (+3) Warren: 14% (-4) Bloomberg: 7% Buttigieg: 6% (-2) Yang: 5% (+4) Klobuchar: 5% (+3) https://fandm.edu/uploads/files/
Big drop for Biden, but it's a bigger bummer for Warren. :\
Sanders still had a ton of ground to make up. Doesn't look like he benefited much from the others losing ground.
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Can only speak for my state of PA but this place is definitely still at least as red as it wound up being in '16
Nonetheless, organized labor is almost by definition a highly exclusionary movement, since its goal is to maximize the utility of individuals who belong the insider group, i.e. its due-paying members. The welfare of the (potential) workforce is not what they are intended to care about. So whether its fighting to keep labor laws that make it almost impossible to fire currently employed workers and in turn cause massive youth unemployment like in Europe over the last decade, or being very skeptical potential increases in the labor pool (regardless if by quantity or quality) through immigrants, labor unions by design extend solidarity only to a narrow and well-defined group of individuals. Everyone who is currently outside their group is therefore automatically a threat to the group.
Location does matter. If i drove 30 minutes south from my chicago suburb I'd think i was in some deep red state.
Yeah, I'm aware who he is. And I didn't say "since the Obama days".
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