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[-] m_f@midwest.social 59 points 18 hours ago

Local opinion piece:

https://www.startribune.com/brehm-democrats-have-themselves-to-blame-for-trumps-election/601176736

I read it because of the title, but it's just some shithead that wants them to move further right:

This red wave wasn’t as much about embracing Donald Trump as it was repudiating far-left progressivism.

[...], and then foisted upon us an equally unqualified and unpalatable hard left alternative.

They are already creating the groundwork for sucking more corporate dick.

[-] GuyDudeman@lemmy.world 10 points 12 hours ago

Holy shit. They really think Harris was "far left"??

[-] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 7 points 11 hours ago

Wait, there was nothing progressive about this campaign except for paying a little lip service to legalizing weed.

[-] Backlog3231@reddthat.com 3 points 6 hours ago

Calm down with the extremism there Karl damn.

[-] jlou@mastodon.social 45 points 16 hours ago

How can this be a rejection of the far left when Harris campaigned as a moderate (e.g. Cheney)? If republican voters are going to think Democrats are communist regardless of how moderate the Democrats are, maybe moderating isn't a good strategy. If the only choice is between right-wing and lite right-wing, right-wing voters will choose the real thing. Even then, Trumpists will still call democrats communists.

Many left polices are popular when they aren't labelled as left

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[-] Zink@programming.dev 1 points 6 hours ago

Exactly. Every Democrat ever nominated is on the radical left, or is one of the “most liberal,” according to the Republican propaganda machine.

But their base is generally super ignorant of the rest of the world so it works. They have no frame of reference for what left and right really are, or how other societies function and get better results.

But that is asking a lot of them. These are the people who lined up to vote for the ticket with the VP that previously called the nominee America’s Hitler. Asking them to consider the finer points of leftist policies improving human lives on the other side of the world is like getting your dog to switch to Linux. There are just so many basic pieces missing that it’s hard to choose where to start.

[-] Facebones@reddthat.com 5 points 12 hours ago

Thats the fun part, people consider dems "far left" because...... Reasons, I guess? This country is so far right just the idea of building more housing counts as communist.

[-] GuyDudeman@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago

True. Even in California, the affordable housing measure and rent control measures both failed.

[-] jlou@mastodon.social 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)
[-] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

No it's not, it's a great policy, it just needs to be supplemented by incentives to build or direct government building programs.

[-] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 30 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Reminds me of that joke about how there are only two races: White, and political. It's disheartening to see folks (some here on Lemmy) confusing listening to the concerns of brown-skinned people with leftism. The Arab-Americans in Michigan, for a relevant example, are just people with a range of political opinions like the rest of us.

[-] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 13 points 15 hours ago
[-] Facebones@reddthat.com 2 points 10 hours ago
[-] Loonesota@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago

Hardly surprising coming from the Star Trib these days... I knew it was bad when they refused to even endorse a candidate.

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