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[This is theoretical and not naming candidates. So please don't get your panties in twist about what category it should be filed under]When I hear Democrats call for a centrist, I've always wondered what they mean by that. Republicans clearly are revealing who they like in their current support of tax-free millionaires and billionaires. They label this class preference the "right." They genuinely think of the right as pro rich people, pro aristocracy, the left as pro everybody else.
So when Democrats speak of certain politicians affectionately as "centrists" do they mean "people leaning towards supporting the aristocracy with some crumbs to appease the screwed?" Are such Democrats ready to switch to the Republican Party (like this clown below wants to switch from Republican to centrist Democrat?)
The following article in Raw Story brought all these concerns to mind.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/02/we-must-exorcise-the-demon-longtime-gop-strategist-publishes-a-devastating-column-as-he-registers-as-a-democrat/
I and a number of other long-time Republicans have re-registered so we can vote for the candidate closest to the center with the best chance of winning the Democratic nomination and defeating Donald Trump in November, Stipanovich writes. Hopefully, that choice will be clearer after Super Tuesday, but it looks like Joe Biden or Michael Bloomberg today.
leftstreet
(36,107 posts)rufus dog
(8,419 posts)And then elect a Republican like Bloomberg.
GET THE FUCK OUT YOU FUCKING ENABLING PIECE OF SHIT MOTHERFUCKERS!!!
YOU TOLERATED THE RACIST IGNORANT MOTHER FUCKERS UNTIL IT WENT TOO FAR WITH TWITTLER!!!
FUCK YOURSELF IN THE ASS YOU FUCKTARDS!
2nd rant for the night.
Faux pas
(14,672 posts)means nothing changes. No forward movement, no new ideas. Same old same old. I don't believe that's a good thing.
Bettie
(16,095 posts)and I also don't believe it is a good thing.
there's millions more of us!
Gore1FL
(21,130 posts)DemocracyMouse
(2,275 posts)And polls suggest that is what Trump's followers thought Trump was (he was faking it, per usual).
The pendulum is swinging back to taxing the rich again, just as we did after the Great Depression. It's swinging back to investing in public schools. And people are screaming for health care reform (and will take ANY improvement at this point).
Warren and Sanders are speaking to these traditional American concerns. They ARE the true blue, feisty Democrats and polls are showing that Sanders has a double digit lead on Trump.
But if we elect "Republican lite" (Klo, But, Joe, Mikey).... we will lose. Those folks are the new Michael Dukakis's.
Turin_C3PO
(13,975 posts)as Republican lite most certainly are not except for maybe Bloomberg. Joe, Pete, and Amy are all liberals who resemble Republicans in no way. You should consider editing your post.