unpopular opinion: the DNC moving right every year isn't their fault it's our fault for not being willing to punish them by voting them out
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Replying to @chaosprime
It's more our fault for voting FOR right-pushing Republicans. If we had voted Dems out, even more Repubs would be IN.
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Replying to @birnbaum_paul
yes, that is exactly the thinking that guarantees Democrats turn into Republicans over time, thanks for summarizing it
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Replying to @chaosprime
Win-win for Republicans, eh? How about "elect Democrats. Make sure they know what you want. Find Democrats who will fight for that"?
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Replying to @birnbaum_paul
so you figure the reason this has been steadily failing harder for the past 40 years is, what, not enough sanctimoniousness?
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Replying to @chaosprime
No. Too much. There was a general mindset change encompassed by the Reagan Revolution. Greed became good. Unions, not so much.
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Replying to @birnbaum_paul
when everybody to the left of you will vote for you no matter how badly you betray them, what incentives would you say this sets up?
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Replying to @chaosprime
And what do you do when the voting bloc of "the Left" isn't enough to get a true Leftist elected (until the entire mindset changes)?
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Replying to @birnbaum_paul
don't care. what's needed is incentives that cause leftward drift. mindless loyalty causes rightward drift.
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Replying to @chaosprime
I don't disagree. But when Tea Party crazies can primary entrenched Conservatives and win elections, what can real progressives do? (1/2)
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is "develop the organization to primary entrenched right wing Democrats" not an obvious answer here
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