Anyone who sees swastikas and klan hoods and decides to join in is ipso facto aligning themselves with white supremacists, and it would be a reasonable inference that such people are likely white supremacists themselves. Perhaps some aren't, but why should I assume that?
Josh Shapiro is the Democrats' version of Ron DeSantis, Scott Walker, and Jeb Bush. Popular in his own state, media loves him, insiders love him, falls flat when out on his own. He sounds like a smarmy East Coast liberal elite trying to play tough guy. Because he is.
1: They're not "eschewing" the votes of the Beelzebuddies of America. They literally offered things that progressives said they wanted! The problem is that the fickle far left are still struggling with the concept that getting some of what you want is better than having everything you want (and everything you already have) taken away. They weren't ignored, they chose to opt out.
That is definitely a bad plan for winning elections. It would be great if the far left listened to your advice that this is a bad strategy.
You're so correct! It's not wrong when you do it, only when the other guy does it to you!
Oh, I get that you are also one that struggles with the concept that getting some of what you want is better than getting nothing. But are you really happy now that not only are you not getting "the scraps"
, but MAGA is removing what little you thought you already had?
Regarding the highlighted, please stop accusing me of doing things I am not. Pointing out that Democrats are stepping on their own dicks and alienating voters does not itself alienate those voters, as desperate as you are to find someone else, anyone else, to blame for their leadership's terrific ◊◊◊◊ ups and why those voters mysteriously don't turn out.
What, of a left handed far left candidate doing it on a Tuesday after Lent while wearing white? It being what you're doing right now? My brother in Christ, if you think it's a bad strategy then why the ◊◊◊◊ can't you stop doing it?
Oh, I get that you are also one that struggles with the concept that getting some of what you want is better than getting nothing. But are you really happy now that not only are you not getting "the scraps"
The claim that the Dems told that block to "◊◊◊◊ off" is complete nonsense. They built the most progressive platform in modern history to include most of what those people asked for. In a democracy, politics is a compromise because no one group ever gets 100% of what they want unless they are an authoritarian dictatorship. Ironically, progressives were so offended by democratic compromise that they helped an actual dictatorship into power.
Personally, I still think giving power to MAGA because Dems didn't promise you a pretty pink pony with a cherry on top was at best short sighted. Just because I think progressives shot themselves (and us) in the foot doesn't mean I think the Dems played it perfectly. In hindsight, it was a failure to expect "reasonable" Republicans to be reasonable, and a failure to expect the fickle far left to rationally pick the option that got them most of what they wanted. I can't tell the next nominee to just lie to progressives because they'd rather burn it all down than not get everything they want, especially when they can't even agree on what they want. I can, however, point out that helping MAGA is not getting the far left what they say they want. Then again, if they're so motivated to ignore the obvious, at some point it’s just trying to take the matches away from an arsonist who lives in a cardboard house.
The fact that you need to use argument ad absurdum says a lot. I asked for any left-wing candidate or elected official on the Democratic ticket who attacks other Democratic factions the way moderate/centrist/conservative Democratic candidates and officials do
I am accusing you of doing things that you do in the very post I am quoting. By claiming the party "eschewed" progressives when they demonstrably did not, you are telling progressives why they should not vote for the Dems, which gives power to MAGA. You guys all love to scream from the rooftops how all the Dems are to blame for 7 centrist votes, or how the Dems told you to ◊◊◊◊ off, and you keep on pretending that repeating claims over and over has no effect on the number of people who believe those claims.
I know yu r but wut am i? Well, that sure won the argument.
You have yet to explain why it is good when you do it but bad when they do it, not to mention a failure to provide any examples of elected Democrats or official Democratic candidates doing it at all.