I listened to the pod save Obama interview from yesterday and I gotta say that the preview of the Biden admin for the next two years seems pretty bleak.
They're already saying we wont have money for anything, and trump is unintereated in stimulus so nobody is going to get stimulus until January and in Biden's first term expect stimulus only for big business. They're not getting 60 seats in the Senate and hearing Obama talk about it Biden will probably accomplish nothing legislatively for 2 years on the hopes that the midterms will be a Dem swing. So the median voter will get nothing and if your progressive or a leftist even you will be expected to be thankful for that and campaign or at least pull the lever for the dems in 2022.
Dont know how Chomsky thinks this will be an admin susceptible to any outside pressure. They have the perfect excuse in place and I guarantee if Chomsky is still alive in 2022 he'll be trotted out to shame leftists into voting dem again.
Also Obama said it was the voters fault that they didnt vote Dem hard enough federally and locally for why he didnt decrease the racial bias in criminal justice - never mind dem strongholds like Cali or NY still being horrendous and that he literally had the power to pardon anybody he wanted to unilaterally.
Dont know how Chomsky thinks this will be an admin susceptible to any outside pressure.
Amen. It's borderline delusional that people think this. The future of the Democrats is to abandon the left completely. In terms of donors and voters, they have much more to gain in the short term by consolidating their dying 'progressive' neoliberalism with the dying neoconservative movement that used to form the base of the GOP.
David Frum, the Lincoln Project, and all the Bush era ghouls will be the ones who have the power to reform the Dems, not Bernie or the Squad. At this point, it seems like even the most modest social democracy requires making a clean break with the Dems, and forming a large enough 3rd party left-wing voting block that can credibly tip elections, forcing some sort of compromise.
I listened to the pod save Obama interview from yesterday and I gotta say that the preview of the Biden admin for the next two years seems pretty bleak.
They're already saying we wont have money for anything, and trump is unintereated in stimulus so nobody is going to get stimulus until January and in Biden's first term expect stimulus only for big business. They're not getting 60 seats in the Senate and hearing Obama talk about it Biden will probably accomplish nothing legislatively for 2 years on the hopes that the midterms will be a Dem swing. So the median voter will get nothing and if your progressive or a leftist even you will be expected to be thankful for that and campaign or at least pull the lever for the dems in 2022.
Dont know how Chomsky thinks this will be an admin susceptible to any outside pressure. They have the perfect excuse in place and I guarantee if Chomsky is still alive in 2022 he'll be trotted out to shame leftists into voting dem again.
Also Obama said it was the voters fault that they didnt vote Dem hard enough federally and locally for why he didnt decrease the racial bias in criminal justice - never mind dem strongholds like Cali or NY still being horrendous and that he literally had the power to pardon anybody he wanted to unilaterally.
Pod Save is basically the communications wing of the Democratic Party, so what you heard is the official strategy for 2022.
I think I hate Obama more than any living politician.
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Amen. It's borderline delusional that people think this. The future of the Democrats is to abandon the left completely. In terms of donors and voters, they have much more to gain in the short term by consolidating their dying 'progressive' neoliberalism with the dying neoconservative movement that used to form the base of the GOP.
David Frum, the Lincoln Project, and all the Bush era ghouls will be the ones who have the power to reform the Dems, not Bernie or the Squad. At this point, it seems like even the most modest social democracy requires making a clean break with the Dems, and forming a large enough 3rd party left-wing voting block that can credibly tip elections, forcing some sort of compromise.
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