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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Replying to @Pinboard
Had you considered that one reason democrats (not progressives) can't flip republican seats is that they're just republicans lite and nobody likes them?
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This is the standard argument from the left about why we lose, and that a more full-throated articulation of our values, and a real contrast in policy, would have a better chance at winning those seats. But I don't think the evidence shows that to be true.
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Replying to @Pinboard
There's no "we." The Democrats are Animal Farm. I'm sick of being told that all we can get is a slightly slower move to the right, and a slighty smaller heap of corpses, and a slightly less fascist society. Deeply disappointed to see you support these people.
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Replying to @substitute
Which people? The four people I'm trying to get elected?
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Replying to @Pinboard
No. This right-wing Democratic party whose talking points you're repeating. The message that we can't stand for anything. The dismissal of principals as "oh that standard argument from the left" as though Jimmy Carter was Lenin. Stop!
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I wasn't saying that in a pejorative way, I was trying to be descriptive. I made this argument myself in 2018 and see the merit. Look, the problem is we have a structural strong right tilt in the electoral college and Senate, and to fix it we need to win within those rules
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Replying to @Pinboard
I know there are technical factors. I'm no expert in electoral politics, don't read process stories, don't speak OpEd, I'm clearly a failure in this world. I want representatives who haven't already agreed to defeat and promised to make things worse. Do we even have goals?
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I think the most important shared goals across both wings of the party are deradicalizing the judiciary, passing some gun laws, infrastructure, returning to the Paris accords, and extending health coverage. Those aren't my dream goals, but they are real and not Republican lite
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Replying to @Pinboard
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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Replying to @Pinboard
I understand. It is very difficult for me to see what isn't your (very well worded) peacock's tail with this crowd.
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