Progressives learned in 2018 that they are not able to flip Republican seats, but they can win upsets in Democratic primaries. This attempt to seize the commanding heights of the party by knocking out the centrist leadership is another fascinating way polarization is playing outhttps://twitter.com/mattdpearce/status/1234171129218002945 …
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A lot of my personal views on this are also colored by my memories of 1989, when the reformist camp in Poland bent over backwards to compromise with the regime enough to win power (for which they were vilified by purists) and then built on that power to completely destroy them.
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A parallel strategy worked here in '92, and they liked it so much they just kept doing it. The platform moves to the right every election. Their public option is the Republican one from the 90s, they've never met a war they didn't like, they cut welfare... they just don't care.
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I don't see those goals expressed in any meaningful way by these candidates, especially their health plans which are all Swiss-watch-complicated ways to continue the current murder factory. They just don't care, and we're not supposed to either.
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The various health plans are kind of a peacock's tail designed to demonstrate ideological health and fitness. Any real health reform requires a Senate majority and I believe is almost independent of who is elected President. The public option would pass for sure under any dem
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I think there is a serious argument that Republicans who put country above party--too few but there are some--agree with 100% of the above. (Not talking to anyone who says that all Dems' plans to fix current crisis in health care funding are 'murderous', so don't start, sparky.)
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So those goals are literally both 'Republican lite' where 'lite"='sane' & dramatically understate the platforms of all but Biden There's one candidate who has a plan to accomplish her goals from the progressive side, one with no plan, but they are the mainstream of the party now
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