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There's that, but I also think there's a genuine discomfort among liberals when it comes to talking about power. Especially for neoliberals, the policies they want are just self-evidently the right ones, supported by data and backed by reason and science. Liberalism is thus inevitable and post-political. People just need to be told what the data shows, and they'll simply rationally accept these things that are in their own self-interest. Power, in this context, is immediately suspect. It seems like a corruption. If things happen not because they're self-evidently the right move, but because some group has seized enough power to get them done, then that's the system breaking down. This resonates emotionally even if liberals aren't aware of it at a conscious level. It's why they don't push as hard as they could when they have power and why the resistance they mount when they don't is closer to playacting than knife-fighting. The problem, of course, is that the struggle for power isn't a corruption of the system, it's the system itself. Western democracy is founded on the idea that no one person has the answer, but the people, collectively, can find it. This search takes the form of a kind of intellectual Darwinism where advocates for different answers combat one another for the approval of the crowd. It can't function when one side thinks it's above the fight. Baby Babbeh has issued a correction as of 22:51 on Dec 15, 2016 |
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I volunteered to help with the AD 19 election. It was pretty nuts. There were 706 votes, double the previous record turnout, despite the fact that it was taking place during a pretty gnarly storm. Progressive candidates swept it.
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Hearing those centrist assholes wringing their hands and wining about the possibility of primary challenges makes my blood boil. Those fuckers act like their whole coalition hadn't just collapsed in on itself like a popped boil. Trump didn't win, Clinton lost, and you don't get to talk about what a disaster a left Tea Party would be when the right Tea Party just bodied you.
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Ask him about getting tech money out of local elections. That'll rile him up.
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