Skroe's assessment of a potential President Sanders in the other thread is bang on. With the current state of your governing chambers there is no winning for actual progressive policy. Progressives do indeed have to change the party first, then they can worry about winning elections in the Houses and for the White House.
So the progressive former underdog primary challenger is endorsing other progressive underdog challengers? What a shock, say it ain't so!
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One would hope said challenger understands the value of not attacking your party from the left and actually gaining power so the things she CLAIMS she wants to get done can get done? Maybe she doesn't want that at all and just wants to keep shouting how unfair things are. I mean it's good business. Much harder to shout how evil The Man is if your party is in the majority.
While you live, shine / Have no grief at all / Life exists only for a short while / And time demands its toll.
It's not about the policy. It's about the approach to politics. You keep missing this. By missing it, you're missing the leading problem in American politics.
The politics of conquest - subjugating all challengers, to the sides and infront of you - is the politics of deadlock and failure. Jeremy Corbyn found this out. His takeover of the Labour Party spent far more time creating ideological conformity within, especially institutionally, that they paid no attention to the swelling ranks of the Conservatives. And also ineffectually fought Brexit at that.
He could have been for free lunches for dogs for all it mattered. It's not about the policy. His refusal to to take the broad coalition of his party and expand its reach to regain a majority, and instead focus on making a more centralized party, lead to the biggest electoral defeat in 80 years. How much bigger a failure of the approach do you need?
Sanders and Justice Democrats are repeating that mistake. They don't see it like that, because in the rational of Justice Democrats, they become kingmakers win or lose. But for the American people, they lose big if the one opposition to Trump is curtailed because of an insane quest for ideological conformity.
So shut it about objection to "New Deal Democrats". It's not about that. It's that AOC and Justice Democrats spend the entirety of their time trying to pull their party to the left, rather than putting all that money and energy in taking more seats held by Republicans, whatever the way.
Because it's a primary, Ramirez here may win. In the general, she is likely to get clobbered worse than a centrist Democrat with cross over appeal. Because it's fucking Texas and not the Bronx and the only way Democrats can win in Texas right now is with crossover appeal and not "getting the base out".
Anyone who thinks "getting the base out is the winning strategy" is basically just a sucker for political action groups and special interests who have pushed that strategy to advance their own ideological power within their respective policies, since that approach first emerged in 2004.
While you live, shine / Have no grief at all / Life exists only for a short while / And time demands its toll.
Bingo.
I'm glad I'm not the only one able to do Math. With 48 seats in the Senate - and likely 47 when Alabama goes back Red in November, the way to a majority is to take out 4 Republicans by any means necessary - a candidate that can win in the State with whatever voters there are (not just progressives).
But no. Justice Democrats and the Progressive Circlejerk Squad wants to reduce those changes to create ideological conformity.
This is why Trump will win and people like AOC and those who agree with her deserve to lose. People who fight stupid fights win stupid prizes.
Somewhere in America, Senator John Cornyn, who gets this, is toasting AOC. Why do you think he, one of the most Senior Republicans in the Senate, stepped down from being the #2 Republican 6 years? Because he's running for re-election in a somewhat tougher climate and to protect him, McConnell made him rank-and-file Senator so he could vote against the Whip - Republican Whip being his old job - and sell himself as having an independent streak. So he can vote against Trump sometimes. Crossover appeal. It's going to work.
And that's why he's going to win again too.
Democrats are absolute gutter trash at politics and it's extremely obnoxious trying to do something about Trump with them. They don't understand it. They don't think strategically. And they think their passion for their issues supersedes the need to be good at politics.
And that's why Donald Trump will win in November.
i guess you can't fault AoC for capitalizing on all the clout the right gives her lol.