El Chisme

83% of self-identified Democrats and 58% of self-identified independents identify as pro-choice shut the entire fuck up already

What we really need is a more moderate Democrat, one who can reach across the aisle.

Itd be nice if democrats could just work where theyre popular, fuck sakes. Pro choice is the popular side, then hard line pro life crap is the minority position.

Luckily I'm not worried about authoritarianism at all, since that's a snarl word employed against brown people in power who aren't sufficiently servile to the West

hilarious how abundance doesn't even pretend to be anything more than what democrats were doing before

surely even some liberals see takes like ezra klein's and recoil in cringe

expand the tent!

looks inside

it's alienating your voting base

"pro-life Demcrats" soooo they're just admitting they're blue Republicans wow

the libs who claimed that Democrats actually care for progressive rights must be feeling pretty duped huh

I found it here.

Abortion is a bad example here, but it is one hundred percent true that we need candidates who can compete in deep red contexts, and that means taking positions at odds with the national party. If you want to know why that doesn't compromise national policy goals, think about why you hate Collins.

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The thread is a trip. It's dull as can be but it's like literally overhearing libs at brunch passionately debating what the democratic party should do "going forward". And the brunchers think it's exceeding clever, canny, and good politics for the dems to boldly move to the right. I assume "Collins" means Susan Collins. But I could be wrong.

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Edit

I googled the Bluesky poster. I didn't expect to find anything but I uncovered this gem.

Daniel Nexon

Nexon co-edited a volume titled Harry Potter and International Relations, published in 2006, that applies international relations theorizing to the world of Harry Potter and the politics of Harry Potter in general.

Liberals supporting fascists by adopting their policies?? This is unprecedented.

The fundamental problem with this approach is that it assumes that the Democrats need to make juuuuuust the right policy shifts with red state candidates and that will win over those flyover country rubes. It’s never that the party itself needs to have a greater positive impact on those communities or have an organic presence. A pro-life Democrat isn’t going to win them over if they still feel like an establishment robot that came out of a DNC lab in Washington.

Republicans almost blew their own party up in 2016 when they let a massive dumbass actually helm it, genuinely angering the true neocons who tried their hardest to boot him and leading to significant intraparty turmoil

And Democrats are STILL going to blow their own party up faster

*latest fad

There’s ALWAYS an excuse. “Big tent” is so appropriate, because there’s so many clowns under it.

COOKED

Democrats will do anything to avoid doing anything that goes further left. They love courting the 1% of Republicans left that will vote for them. Can't try to give the non-voters something to give a shit about.

Didn't most of the anti-abortion democrats just get ousted by Republicans anyway? I don't think there are that many left.

Oh, you mean the Democrats who have reliably never opposed trump?

@neera_tanden@hexbear.net

These fucking handmaidens of fascism need to shut the fuck up.

Oh wait never mind I just remembered the reason they even give a shit is they need the stability of this rotten society for their wealth and position to mean anything.

So now you see what they were truly willing to give away so they could go back to brunch and 3pm happy hours.

Inevitable Swing, relevant username heh

Liberals identify anything related to living in a society as "authoritarian", they're antisocial

If you are worried about authoritarianism, force people to give birth for the machine.

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