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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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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Which people? The four people I'm trying to get elected?
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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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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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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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I don't like fighting with you personally. You're a friend and I respect your work and your viewpoint. I'm just very disappointed in these establishment talking points that treat real change as childish dreams when it's desperately needed.
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I don't like it either and will stop the public conversation. I am equally disappointed with all aspects of the situation, along with the additional burden of being a gloomy pessimist who expects that we are going to lose even on this modest, diminished set of dreams
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Replying to @Pinboard
Yeah, that about says it. Sorry to have gone into flame mode, but 40 years of this has been hard.
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