"Biden failing will be the jolt the Democratic party needs to move to the left!" like I envy you that you think we have enough time to wait for ideological shifts
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Replying to @iphone_venez @Nymphomachy
“Hillary failing will...” “Kerry failing will...” “Gore failing will...” A huge part of the problem the US has us that both parties respond to electoral defeat by moving right.
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Replying to @iphone_venez @Nymphomachy
People say the Dems took all the wrong lessons from McGovern, but I think it was the one-two punch of *two* landslide defeats, with the Reagan Revolution happening *after* Watergate should've left the GOP in the wilderness for a generation, that really killed the Boomers' hope
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Replying to @arthur_affect
I wonder what would have happened if liberal Boomers became literate in the existence of the Southern Strategy much earlier on in their lives, but maybe it's naive of me to think they haven't always known about it
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LBJ *said* "I've just lost the South for a generation" when he signed the Civil Rights Act
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