https://twitter.com/the_vello/status/1321435262023536641

Feels like (the good parts of) old chapo again, drop an AOC post and go grab some lunch... come back and there are over 60 replies :)

  • hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
    5·
    4 years ago

    It was half a century ago, and both parties have changed significantly.

    When will chapo dot chat learn that leftist leaders do not hand down infallible, eternal prophesies. They have incisive takes that stand the test of time better than most, but things do change.

      • hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        switching from tolerating overt racism to tokenist and shallow identity politics isn’t a “significant change” in the Democratic Party

        You're confusing a half-measure for nothing at all. Yes, taking big steps towards legal equality and dismantling the most obviously racist practices was a significant change from open segregation. Denying that real progress has been made -- however far we still have to go -- is out of touch.

        Nor was embracing the religious right a significant change for the Republican Party

        It was enormous change, and there were other enormous changes in the party, too. Compare the Eisenhower-era Republican Party, which had a strong isolationist wing and which was on board with significant infrastructure projects, to today's Republican Party, which is willing to crusade at the drop of a hat and which is far more opposed to the government doing almost anything else.