"The Truth is in the Middle" - The Liberal Ideal in an Era of Nationalism

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Doctor Butts: May 21, 2002

Ytlaya posted:

I think this is a difficult problem (and possibly an impossible one to fix). I know a bunch of wealthy liberals, and they sorta-kinda care about helping people in theory but it never goes beyond discussions and is almost always limited to ideas that wouldn't be considered "radical."

Yea, rich liberals are hard to reach because they can't really empathize and middle-class/poor liberals have too much to lose/don't have the time to contribute.

Kilroy posted:

I mean of course they don't have much experience running things - they've been shut out of power by the centrist "left" for decades. I

Experience isn't a huge deal. The biggest problem for further left Democrats is they
1. Don't have elected officials in place
2. There are a paltry number of candidates who represent that view in the first place

You want to get somewhere? You need the candidates, people to run on that platform in the first place. I'm not even trying to get into whether or not they want to primary sitting Democrats: the biggest problem is the talent pool is nothing but a puddle at this point in time.

TyroneGoldstein posted:

I'm in my late 30's so I've watched these people go from crusaders for social justice to unconsciously becoming the things that their parents sculpted them to be. You go to college not to get an education, you go to college to improve your monetary prospects. So now that they have kids, the ones that couldn't quite hack it in NYC's overheated housing market, have started migrating to the burbs right outside the city line.

Good points.

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