What are you looking for in the 2020 Democratic candidate: restore norms, or counterrevolution?

Concernig Gaetz . . . Have the Republicans even done the usual "tsk tsk" thing that they do when Trump does something historically abnormal for the office, or when Steve King (Racist- Iowa) talks to European neo-nazis?

 

It seems to me that this board alone has several exceptions.

 

538 article on the 6 wings of the democratic Party.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-six-wings-of-the-democratic-party/

 

Interesting article. Makes more sense than the progressive v moderate narrative you usually see (I guess because people think in binary). I would say I am progressive new guard, personally. Noteworthy that the article doesn't really touch on foreign policy.

 

Thanks to the Democrats' "open borders" position, there's no need for a foreign policy.

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Foreign Policy (and probably some ageism on my part) is why I'm currently supporting Warren more than Sanders (his outlined policy isn't so bad, but he has made some dumb statements/choices over the years that would bite him in an election). On the initial question of this thread: I think making an uncompromising push for popular policy solutions that keep American quality of life from falling behind other developed country is not counterrevolution, and I definitely do think it is the way to win.

I'm an immigrant from the former Eastern Bloc sphere whose family came here for advancement opportunity in the 1990s. Now as 30-something, my American born wife is constantly suggesting that we move back to where I was born because better healthcare, no mass incarceration, and many other QOL advantages such as years of maternity leave.

Respectively disagreeing with regressive power grabs and trusting the inertia of institutional norms doesn't win, at best it delays.

 

I need to get off my ass and copyright the phrase "Bernie Sandinista" to sell that shit to the MAGA hat crowd, should Sanders win the nomination.

 

And to the leftiest left of his fanclub.

 

Interesting...

“noun
a member of a left-wing Nicaraguan political organization, the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), which came to power in 1979 after overthrowing the dictator Anastasio Somoza. Opposed during most of their period of rule by the **US-backed** Contras, the Sandinistas were voted out of office in 1990.”

We just can’t stay out of south/central America’s business can we?

It’s the easy go-to isn’t it? FrEeDoM!!!!!

 

I know who and what "Sandinista" means. I also know that Ortega's actions of late haven't exactly been, for lack of a better word, excessively democratic. The negative ads will literally write themselves.

EDIT: And just to be clear: Like you say in the other thread, I will vote for any of the Democrats in the field against Trump. Or Pence. If Sanders comes out of the convention on the ticket, that's my vote.

Unless somehow the Democrats run a ticket consisting of Charles Manson and Tex Watson, that's my vote.

 

Fidel Castro also overthrew a dictator that was backed by the USA, Fidel's human rights and democratic record afterwards was not very good.

Similar with the Sandinista. Is not as bad as being pro Hugo Chavez and Maduro, but in the same ballpark.

 

The Democratic tea party will be as helpful as the GOP tea party.

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Well, except that the GOP Tea Party votes for GOP candidates on a consistent basis. A lot of the campus-based far left, like the woke folks in antifa, doesn't vote consistently, if at all.

 

Where do you place people like Mich McConnel and other GOP figures that let him get away with it?

 

That is just nuts. What connection does Chelsea Clinton have to the massacre in New Zealand? What a dumbass.

 

She did not defend Representative Omar regarding the AIPAC comments. No kidding, that is what this was about.

 

How's that working out for them?