Kasich is full of shit. He's telling us not to demonize one another while trashing Progressives

[jalan48]

as the Far Left.

[dchill]

1. Well, yes.

[LovingA2andMI]

2. He Can Leave The Stage....

No One Cares WTF He Says.

[Zoonart]

3. The Never Trumpers are NOT OUR FRIENDS.

Have been preaching this for three years.

[TreasonousBastard]

4. That's not what he said, but Progressives (if you mean what I think you mean by that) have...

a very small base. Lots of people accept progressive plans and positions, but do not think of themselves as Progressive.

If Progressives become identified as the radical left, it's over for them. That's more like what Kasich was saying.

On edit-- note that he said the same thing about the far right.

[jalan48]

6. Far Left? Who is far left in our party?

[Silent3]

10. Exactly. Since when did fighting global warming, progressive taxation...

...not wanting cops indiscriminately people, universal healthcare like most other civilized wealthy countries, a decent minimum wage, free or cheap college education, equal rights for all people, etc., become "radical" or "far left"?

[bigtree]

12. +1

[Hortensis]

11. Yes. Except I'd add that by far most progressives do not identify

with the comparatively very small, usually oppositional political faction that calls itself "Progressives."

I'm definitely not a Kasich admirer. But of course he's right if he said that the Progressives faction has done as well as it has because the RW media, MSM and most LW media avoided describing it as far, radical or extreme left between 2015 and 2020. That enabled it to sell itself to mainstream progressive voters in far greater numbers than would have otherwise been the case.

[lunasun]

5. Dems you won time to turn into moderate republicans for the sake of the GOP voters

[Bettie]

7. Well, Progressives are someone the right and left seem to hate

look, there's even someone on this thread trashing progessives.

It seems some people around here prefer Kasich to progressive Democrats.

[Turin_C3PO]

13. I don't think most people on this site feel that way.

Sure, there’s a few but the Democratic Party is the big tent, encompassing everyone from centrists to AOC-style progressives. Different tactics but ultimately similar goals.

[Bettie]

14. May not be most but there are some

very vocal posters who believe that progressives have no place in "their" party.

It bugs me that there are some people here who are quick to embrace Kasich, but even quicker to criticize progressive Democrats.

[Turin_C3PO]

15. I agree with you about Kasich.

It was nice to have his support but he has no business telling Democrats what to do.

[dhill926]

8. he can fuck himself.....

[Buckeye_Democrat]

9. I've never heard him speak against the right-wing...

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... lies in the media that have grown worse over the years in my area. (Where baseless demonizations of liberals is constant.)

It's completely unbearable to a person with a decent education, more apt to see through the deceptions.

If I'm wrong about his silence, then I apologize, but it's the right-wing propaganda that keeps pushing this country into a shit hole.