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What should Democrats do to win?
[Al Jazeera] When you see or hear someone warning the Democrats that they'll shoot themselves in the foot if they're too radical, look at who they are. Doug Schoen was the pollster on Clinton's presidential race. Now he's a commentator on Fox. Schoen hated Obama and the ACA, but he still likes Hillary. Joe Cunningham says the American people "want moderating voices in government". The same American people who elected Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... , the members of the Freedom Caucus, and the lock-step, hard-right Republicans in the Senate? Cunningham is an editor for RedState.com, and thinks that Obama "invited backlash" by "pushing the country as far left as he did", though he didn't actually "embrace socialism". Geoffrey Kabaservice says "the Resistance That'd be the Hezbullies, but in the U.S. it's used by anti-Trumplings... " is forcing the Dems "away from long held norms of bipartisan give-and-take". Where has he been since 2009? It's the "long gone" norms of give-and-take. Geoff is a Republican "in the moderate mainstream of my party". Where? one asks. In exile, off the coast of Labrador? Investor's Daily has a headline, "It's Official: Democrats Are The Extremists Today". The National Review shrieks, "The Democratic party is moving left with breathtaking velocity. Not only is it far to the left of Bill Clinton  ...former Democratic president of the U.S. Bill was the second U.S. president to be impeached, the first to deny that oral sex was sex, the first to have difficulty with the definition of is... , it's well to the left of even Barack Obama They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them... ." In terms of policy, Obama was about as radical as George H W Bush, and more conservative than Eisenhower or Nixon. The fear, the hysteria, is that the Democrats might actually come to stand for things. Then fight for them. Even - horrors! - fight as hard as Republicans! Some of the fear of "radicalism," comes from within the Democratic Party. Their establishment, like all establishments, wants to keep doing it the way they were doing it. They want candidates who sound "mainstream" enough to appeal to stray Republican voters, who raise money and don't insult or frighten money. But those are the attitudes that opened the door to Trump, lost the House, the Senate, and a host of state governments. It's time to bet on the radicalism. Though most of what forces of Evil are asking for is normal in most Western European countries. It may seem a greater risk in the short term, but in the long term, it's the far better choice. It's not just about getting elected. It's what you do when you get there. Good idea. And keep shouting about what schitz white people are, and how deplorable Trump voters are. Have periodic riots. Oh, and keep doing brilliant stuff like outlawing plastic straws. Posted by: Fred 2018-08-05 |
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