• Verdant Banana@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    which is what they always do

    might as well call it what it is Republicans versus Centrist

    really fucked this election

    already forget about women’s rights, worker’s rights/pay, police reform, and basically everything the “Democrats” supposedly stand for

    another four years of stagnation

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      3 months ago

      Those look like purple state choices, perhaps to swing those states or speak to similar states. But yeah if you put up purple state candidates you’re going to get people who can win purple states and they aren’t going to be super progressive.

      Put up progressives from blue states and risk swinging purple states red. I don’t know the solution. Some forward momentum would be nice, but I’ll settle for whatever keeps Trump out of office for now.

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        3 months ago

        Working class Democrats like Sherrod Brown (D-OH) do very well in most of the swing states. The problem is that there are very few of them running in the swing states.

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        3 months ago

        Just be more republican to win republican votes.

        Wait why do we want the democrats to win again?

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          3 months ago

          Because when the alternative sets us back 50 years, standing still doesn’t look so bad. The challenge is moving the Overton window leftward and I don’t know how we do that, but I’m all ears.

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          If you want the current left to be recognized as centrist, then you need to vote until it becomes the norm, so that a new left can develop.

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              3 months ago

              Absolutely. The way forward is to move the Overton window until the current left is the new right.

              …and understand that it might take a lifetime.

              Nothing handicaps genuine progress quite like impatience.