• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Yep, we have three factions in America:

      1. Conservative
      2. Moderate
      3. Progressive

      1 and 2 criticize 3

      2 and 3 criticize 1

      But when it’s time to criticize 2…

      If 1 does it, 2 “compromises” with them

      If 3 criticizes 2, then 2 starts screaming about “both sides” and saying group 3 is really group 1

      It doesn’t make any fucking logical sense, but that’s where we’ve been for decades. And it’s not working.

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          What’s frustrating is progressives already won the fight back in 08…

          But instead of Obama putting his people in charge of the DNC (national Dem party) he just ignored the party, because the party ignored (or even hurt) his campaign.

          So when Obama left office, the party went right back to their old bullshit.

          Now we need to do it all over again.

          It’s honestly not that hard to fix, just ever since 08 the DNC has fought a lot harder to ensure progressives dont control the party.

          Every election that goes by that a progressive doesn’t win, the party locks it down tighter.

          This election they removed delegates from an entire state for our primary, because they always went first and kept voting progressive.

          And by and large, people just didn’t care…

          Hell, lots of Americans still don’t even know New Hampshire had their delegates stolen.

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            Obama was never a true progressive. His signature legislative victory was literally just yhe Republican health care plan from 10 years earlier. It was literally based on Romney’s overhaul of the Massachusetts health insurance reforms as governor.

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              His signature legislative victory was literally just yhe Republican health care plan from 10 years earlier.

              It was actually a more conservative (shitty) version of Romney’s plan.

              But his campaign was progressive, and it flipped solid red states.

              So when the only goal we’re allowed to focus on is stopping trump, we don’t need an actual progressive. A moderate pretending to be progressive will be enough.

              It worked for Biden in 2020, but this election he stopped pretending and is only demanding votes.

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                And what happened afterwards? Because Obama’s failure to make meaningful changes to the average American’s life resulted in the Democrats loosing support in huge swaths of the country and gave us Trump.

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                  I’d say if that held true, Obama would have had a difficult time getting re-elected. He got re-elected effortlessly. People were broadly content, though less energized for his re-election bid.

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                  But he was still able to get a second term.

                  Biden doesn’t look like he’ll be able to.

                  Like. You’re right, I agree with what you said.

                  But what gave us trump was running Hillary. We could have gotten an Obama 2.0 that did the same shit as Obama and had two terms, they’d just now be leaving office.

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        You got the factions wrong.

        1. Proud Conservatives
        2. Embarrassed Conservatives
        3. Progressives

        Makes more sense when you look at it that way.

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        It’s because the corporate donors that support 2 are okay with 1 but fucking hate 3 because they threaten profits.

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          Well, not that clear cut nowadays. The far right have started getting all about super high tariffs and broadly impeding international trade and also getting rid of people who also generally provide a cheap labor market. Also a general sense of a will to undermine economy for the sake of their beliefs. The promises of lower taxes now come with some costs that likely make it not worth it.

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        I assume this is analogous to 1=Republican, 2=Democrat, 3=Progressive. ? So then usually it’s group 3 that is complaining about “both sides”?

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      Yeah it’s hard to argue that Macron is a centrist. Sure he was elected as one, but his actions are pretty self explanatory