We really do need to stop calling rightist Democrats “moderates.” Blue MAGAs party registration doesn’t make their corrupt, harmful, rightist policy “moderate.”
For all the bias the dinosaur fuckwits at the DNC have, the fundamental problem remains that both the Dem base and the American public remain immensely misinformed and right-wing.
Based on how many recent elections have been going I have to wonder whether that polling data is accurate in that portrayal.
NYC shows that there is an immense appetite in at least some areas for radical change, and that ‘socialist’ is no longer a poisoned word in American politics in all cases.
However, the Jersey and Virginia governor races were both won by extremely moderate Dems. Discontent with the GOP does not necessarily imply a desire for the Dems to go further left, unfortunately.
Yeah, the general is what it is but in the primaries in both NJ and VA there were more liberal politicians with fairly significant support. In NJ Sherrill only got 30% while Baraka got 21%. In VA Ghazala Hashmi became lt gov.
People seem to want a moderate candidate with radical policies. Confusing I know.
People want the effects of radical policy, but none of the scary words that come with it, like ‘taxes’, ‘equality’, ‘accountability for authority’ etc.
They just want society to get better and heal without ever having to change what they grew up with. Fucking suburbia.
Temporarily embarassed millionaire moment (even though I recently found out its a misquote*).
*The quote was apparentally originally criticizing how self-labelled communists in groups tended to be middle-class “temporarily embarassed millionaires” who romanticized the working class. Which I think is sometimes quite true. But I also think the misquote version is also true. Where the working class believe in the American Dream and myths about self-made millionaires and thus work against their own self interest.
Champagne socialists is really the more appropriate term for those folk, it sounds like the misquote was well-used for once. Temporarily-embarrassed millionaires is one of my favorite ways to describe American wealth worship and delusion from working-class people who have never had a fucking chance of becoming a multi-millionaire.
I whole heartedly agree
