He's either insulting leftists or the American system is wholly incongruent with the real spectrum of world views, right? He can call them money grubbing and ineffectual and he'd be spot on, but c'mon man, I'm posting hard over here and I feel like chopped liver the way he ignores me!

  • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]
    hexagon
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    4 years ago

    You say that, but didn't Bernie perform well on Fox News? He got more military donations than Trump. Populism gets the people going. Nobody in the fucking world, and good lord I mean nobody, thinks subsidized COBRA is cool unless you're an insurance exec who has bought a fleet of politicians. There's an apatite for Americans having good things instead of lib shit even if communism is a bad word.

    • ThrillScottHeron [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Populism gets the people going.

      Undeniably. What I'm getting at though is that Dems gatekeep leftists out of electoral politics anyway.

      The GOP centering a strategy around leftists would be like designing your finals playbook around an underdog from a different division. A waste of time because you're not fighting them for the championship.