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comedyblissoption posted:
The Iowa debacle brings into focus an idea that I'd had but couldn't quite put to words. It's that the powers that be in the Democrat party all all in way over their head and chosen for reasons other than competence. This isn't to say that the Republicans are some kind of meritocracy, but they seem to be able to handle the basic blocking and tackling of modern politics in a way that's utterly anathema to anyone capable of rising up in the Democrat party. To that end, i love Bernard as a candidate, but really hard to imagine him running a competent nationwide campaign. Even more so Biden. Watching Biden get into shoving matches with people who show up at his rallies would be worth the price of admission though
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ManBoyChef posted:I think the Iowa debacle really helps show that the Democratic party has a lot of really glaringly obvious problems that if we do not address we are just going to keep failing the voters in the party over and over or making them choose between hillary and trump. I for one am sick of the lesser of two evils. One good thing is that progressives are actually starting to win elections even the the DNC and the DCCC are putting their thumb on the scale. I'm pretty sick of the center right part of the party screwing over the left flank. It happens every time. We havent had any real progressive since FDR or Mcgovern (if he had won). I think it is well passed time to actually compromise. I'm not a leftist, or even a Democrat, but I agree 100% with what you're saying. It appears that the harder the centrists resist the left in the party, the less capable they seem to be at absolutely everything, from decision making to on the ground strategy execution. Maybe it's Establishment versus Insurgents? That still maps to centrists versus left, but feels more accurate?
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COOL CORN posted:He said Mitt doesn't believe in God Doesn't this crowd (D&D, that is) usually makes lots of fun of Mormans in general, and Mitt specifically? Seems odd that he, and his (weird) religious beliefs would all of a sudden be in favor with the left. I'm so old that I remember when Mitt was double Hitler and gonna put y'all back in chains
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Framboise posted:You can acknowledge someone for being the only one of their kind to do the right thing without agreeing with their policies or even liking them as a person but that requires the ability to not be stuck in binary thinking mindsets where you are only ever either in Nah, it was just a bunch of high minded rhetoric to hide the fact that he's still butthurt at getting trolled by Trump over the SoS job. You get that, right?
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DandyLion posted:*posting from servitude in the magic underwear sweatshop factory i wish!
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Nenonen posted:It probably helps staying grounded that his mate was the same age and they had been married for over two decades then. Trump has never had a loving, understanding, equal companion who can put him in his place. I think I’d rather enjoy seeing Melania yelling at trump to clean the kitchen or whatever
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