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| How did the Squad get elected? |
| 2019-07-26 |
| [NEO] Step 1: Find a congressional district that’s bluer than blue, where any Democratic nominee is a shoe-in to be elected. Some of these are natural districts, almost always located in big urban centers. Others are carefully gerrymandered to create a situation in which a Democratic nominee cannot lose. Step 2: Locate one in which the current Democratic representative has some weaknesses. Maybe he or she is a bit too stale, having been around really long. Maybe he or she is a bit too white—or, for the “he’s”, a bit too male or too heterosexual. Step 3: Recruit a far left candidate from a favored demographic that is a designated victim group: black, Hispanic, Muslim, female, or a combination of as many of those characteristics as possible. Step 4: It helps if the new candidate is a she who is very pretty and quite young. Step 5: Primary the current Democratic representative. Step 6: In the primary, count on only the most leftist activists to show up in any significant numbers. It’s best if the turnout is less than a third of eligible voters, which is often the case in a primary in a place where there’s an incumbent whom people assume will win against his or her Democratic challengers, particularly if they are extremists. Step 7: Win the primary. Once you do that, you’re home free, because the Republican (if there even is one running) has just about zero chance of winning against any Democrat in this particular district. Then do it again. And again. Until your power is consolidated. It can be done in the Senate, too, in true-blue states. But the House is much easier. That is a way it may be possible for the far left to gain more power, particularly in the House, even if the majority of America and even the majority of Democrats do not support far left politics. Emphasis added. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #5 Freeze the target. Control the narrative. Flood the zone with all identity politics, all the time. |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-07-26 21:43 |
| #4 Step 4: It helps if the new candidate is a she who is very pretty and quite young. .250 is not a good batting average; just sayin'. |
| Posted by: Raj 2019-07-26 15:31 |
| #3 And count on the GOPe to let Todd Akin and Roy Moore types slip through in primaries and go on to lose shoo-in elections. Or send us garbage like Romney. Throw in some like Sasse and you are almost as bad off as if the seat flipped. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-07-26 11:46 |
| #2 The sky really is the limit. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2019-07-26 09:48 |
| #1 This is almost the playbook that the Justice democrats used to get the four whores of the apocalypse into power. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2019-07-26 09:44 |