• MagicShel@programming.dev
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    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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      Just be more republican to win republican votes.

      Wait why do we want the democrats to win again?

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        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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            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.