The Democratic Party is in a bind.
There is a general acknowledgment that voters this November and beyond might easily be put off by the radical policies of many Democratic candidates, such as abolishing the police, abolishing ICE, and paying for sex change operations for illegal immigrants with tax dollars. Such extremes and general weirdness certainly hurt Democrats at the ballot box in 2024.
On the other hand, however, socialist candidates who fervently supported these positions are now winning Democratic primaries nationwide. So is the party to welcome them or repudiate its own nominees? How can the Democrats pretend to move toward the political center, as is customary, while embracing the radicalism that general election voters reject?
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“paying for sex change operations for illegal immigrants with tax dollars”
Which is a perfect example of a word jumble. Nobody has ever as much, as suggested this absurd crap but it won’t stop you from spreading it brainlessly. By definition illegals can’t access any government funded program, whether you had a universal healthcare or it actually offered bottom surgeries for free…
“embracing the radicalism that general election voters reject”
Just keep lying to yourself, bub. Social democrats are literally gaining momentum by the week and your centrists are now shitting their pants in fear of being ousted from their influence in the dem party.
There is a radical acknowledgment that voters this November and beyond might easily be put off by the general policies of many Dorm Catic abolishes, such as Candi dating the police, abolishing ICE and paying for illegal operations for tax immigrants with sex change dollars. Such Mex trees and weird generalness certainly hurt Dorm Cats at the ballot
When the democrats fuck this up, against all odds, again, be sure to whine about it on facebook. That really helped the last 2 times.
The Democratic Party can, with a few exceptions, be divided into four groups: The Old Guard, who are stuck in the 1970s and 1980s in a lot of ways but have been (often reluctantly) dragged into the 2010s in others; The Neoliberals, who are corporate lackeys on economic issues but mostly go with the rest of the party on social issues; the Progressives, who keep up with the times but are mostly dedicated to working within the system as it currently exists; and the Democratic Socialists / Social Democrats (the names have nothing to do with the Democratic Party, they’d freely run as Republicans if the Repubs were the left-wing party) who hope to change the system and bring about European-style socialism lite.
Until recently, the Old Guard and the Neoliberals have been working together to keep the DS/SD types out of the party, though they’ve never been 100% successful. Now that the Old Guard are gradually retiring or dying out, and the DS/SDs have been gaining a lot of popularity and sometimes beating far better funded “establishment” candidates, we’re likely seeing the beginnings of a major intra-party political shift, for better or worse.
Which leads to conservative-run legacy media like the Washington Examiner engaging in hand-wringing, thinly-veiled scolding, concern trolling, and laughably bizarre takes. (The funniest ones basically read like “The Dems are doomed if they become too popular!”) The closest they have to a maybe-point is that if the Democrats have too many far-left members, centrists will sour towards the party as a whole; but that doesn’t matter much if you can keep the base sufficiently engaged, something which the Old Guard never really understood and the Neoliberals purposefully never pursued (their corporate masters don’t want a left-wing economy) but the Progressives and DS/SDs very much do understand.
@Skide #262523
Social democrats are literally gaining momentum by the week and your centrists are now shitting their pants in fear of being ousted from their influence in the dem party.
Right, plus those are the candidates that the vast majority of citizens have wanted the Dems to be for all this time. They are talking about doing the things Americans have begged for for a long time. And if they are going to be like Mamdani, they will actually do what they’ve promised instead of just talking about it and then making excuses as to why it can’t be done.
Meanwhile Repubs crash our economy, decimate middle and poor classes, elected an Epstein client who seemingly loves America's adversaries, lied to the voters, protect paedos, ignore terrorism done by Christians
Or maybe Americans have gotten desperate enough (in part because of Trump and Republicans actions) that resulted in the rising popularity of social democrats and democratic socialists… and that also means that perhaps they are popular enough to became a legitimate political force in this nation… but no it can’t be that, they have to be about to lose because admitting otherwise means the old ways that’s been the way the nation function since the 1980s is coming to a end and alot of rich people really don’t want that.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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