President Biden: My Legacy Is "I Kept My Word," "When I Said I Was Going To Do Something, I Did" (www.realclearpolitics.com)

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[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world -3 points 9 months ago

Democrats are a centerist party

Since the neoliberal takeover in the 90s piggybacked on Bills inherit charisma and the dotcom boom...

Since then we've had 12 years of Dem presidents, 8 of those were a young charismatic reminiscent of the actual popular things about Bill, and then 4 years of his VP, because that was the only option next to trump.

The "centrist" experiment doesn't fucking work.

We can't keep pretending it does, the country isn't going to survive it.

Before Bill, there was Jimmy C, also so progressive that the moderate wing sabotaged him. Before that FDR who wanted universal healthcare and was wildly popular.

He also was opposed by the moderate wing of the Dem party. The issue has just been exacerbated since Hillary's Victory fund nonsense, and while I'd like to assume everyone is aware by now:

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/02/clinton-brazile-hacks-2016-215774/

For longer than either of us have been alive, progressives dominate general elections when they can get past their own party. When they can't (except for rare exceptions) the Republican wins.

You're stuck on "as long as they're better than a Republican" we're not talking about if that's correct.

I'm talking about how we can't reliable convince voters of that, so as long as we keep doing it, republican presidents keep happening.

We can stop that, by finally picking voters over donors. And selecting the most popular candidate for the general, rather than the one who gets the most donations from billionaires and corporations

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