what exactly is the "regressive left"?
White bernie-bro purity leftists are attacking hardworking black politicians
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Okay, ya lost, so what's your solution?
My first time voting in a primary, I thought Obama was more trustworthy than Clinton so I voted him over her. And somehow, he got the nomination.
Last time I voted in a primary, I thought Sanders was more trustworthy. He didn't happen to win.
So what do you expect me to do since I didn't get my way? Just say fukk it and stay home on election day? Grow up, please.
"The crowds" are what vote here in the US
And I voted for Hillary, don't throw your complaints at me, I'm busy working on local campaigns to strengthen labour power, and student power here in Ohio
And if you don't think Populism is deeply engrained in the United States, I'm going to need you to do basic American political research.
lets not forget Op was a hardcore Trump supporter
Most children don't.
see, i could've done that. but then i wouldn't b able to get my post count up and dap whoever gave me the answer
Use of the term "regressive Left" is an alt-right warning sign.
Its intention is to paint Left-of-center politicians and supporters and Islamist shills, but its use has since been perverted by neo-Nazis and their Centrist ilk.
What you're subscribing to is a policy that could get the Democrats in office and a lot of Congressional seats, if they stood together for just two years and worked out a cohesive national plan.
You know what gets the silly-rural Trump supporters ready to go? Jobs.
You know what gets semi-Leftists without any ideology ready to go? War on Poverty.
You know what gets Centrists who don't like to vote but like to complain about the state of the country ready to go? Innovation.
New roads. A job programme that puts laid off blue-collar workers and non-violent felons to work. High-speed rails. Water infrastructure replacement. Give it a nationalist banner that strays from jingoism and I can guarantee 2020.
My feelings on it are this. When a candidate is so poor that the best reason to vote for them in the general election is to keep someone else out of office and that's their rallying cry it's a losing proposition and not worth the time. In this country if you expect to win an election people have to actually be voting for you not voting against your opposition.
If you feel like it's your duty to vote for this losing candidate in a hail mary attempt to keep somebody else out of office go ahead and do you. Just know that you will fail. It always fails. Modern history has proven that.
Well, I don't agree, and your examples haven't convinced me.
I view Trump as someone whose character flaws are so dangerous for that job that I would have legitimately rolled the dice on having a randomly selected American be president before allowing him to be elected without objection. A person with seemingly no moral core, not well read or even interested in science or world affairs, and only seems motivated to promote his own brand and image. And even if I could grant you that Hilary Clinton is guilty of some of those things, I can, at least, be certain that she could point out Pakistan on a map. That she could name which countries in the region are mostly Sunni and which Shia. I don't have the same confidence with Trump even now 7 months in. Trump is incredibly uninformed, but also egotistical to believe he knows the answer to everything. He tells idiotic lies, and says shyt better politicians would know not to say .... better people would know not to say. This is a very unique situation.
Had we not been talking about a man with such flaws, I might be more willing to agree with you. But voting for someone who is informed over someone who isn't (and shares 75% of my political beliefs, as opposed to 25% for the other) is as good a reason anyone should need. Democrats have to overcome that small state bias in order to win, so even though most people actually supported her, she lost. I'm still going to be pragmatic when I vote, because I know that most of the time I won't get a candidate I really believe in ... most of the time it's a choice between two mediocre to poor options.
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Your corporate Dems are telling on themselves. I believe one of you called Nina Bernie's 'Omarosa' too
I_Got_Da_Burna
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The blatant hypocrisy in this thread...unbelievable.
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Yuk. Yet they'll go beg the rich in the Hamptons for money.
Your corporate Dems are telling on themselves. I believe one of you called Nina Bernie's 'Omarosa' too
