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no_hypocrisy

(55,083 posts)
Sat Mar 2, 2024, 09:25 AM Mar 2024

I don't get this about "No Labels":

Other than being contrarian, what is so wrong about Democrats and their party endorsing FDR and the New Deal and LBJ? Why is it "extreme" to support Social Security, strong rights for unions, Medicare/Medicaid, equal pay for women, a 40-hour work week, a responsive government to citizens, protected voting rights, equal rights to ALL Americans, job security? (All this is rhetorical. It isn't extreme.)

No Labels doesn't appear to have better ideas. I can't understand anyone who would vote for NL as default.

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I don't get this about "No Labels": (Original Post) no_hypocrisy Mar 2024 OP
It's probably being propped up by russia and/or other countries. mucifer Mar 2024 #1
Ding Ding Ding FalloutShelter Mar 2024 #3
It's being propped up by our own domestic shitheads. Voltaire2 Mar 2024 #4
This. WhiskeyGrinder Mar 2024 #6
Exactly. TwilightZone Mar 2024 #8
Worse: by guys like Joe Lieberman. All Mixed Up Mar 2024 #12
Zima Freethinker65 Mar 2024 #2
They never say anything specific - kinda like the GOP. What exactly are you for? Crickets... 617Blue Mar 2024 #5
They're liars for dump. Period. onecaliberal Mar 2024 #7
Only my opinion... MiHale Mar 2024 #9
Another group paid for by the RW rich............................ Lovie777 Mar 2024 #10
None of that appears to their focus. TwilightZone Mar 2024 #11

Voltaire2

(15,377 posts)
4. It's being propped up by our own domestic shitheads.
Sat Mar 2, 2024, 09:41 AM
Mar 2024

The delusion that everything bad is from Russia obscures the real peril we face.

TwilightZone

(28,836 posts)
8. Exactly.
Sat Mar 2, 2024, 09:57 AM
Mar 2024

On a similar note, blaming Trump for everything the GOP does is the same problem.

Trump is not the disease. He's a symptom.

 

617Blue

(2,526 posts)
5. They never say anything specific - kinda like the GOP. What exactly are you for? Crickets...
Sat Mar 2, 2024, 09:47 AM
Mar 2024

MiHale

(13,088 posts)
9. Only my opinion...
Sat Mar 2, 2024, 10:03 AM
Mar 2024

N.L. is a ‘splinter’ group of the MAGA coup group, formed to attract a saner version of the insurrectionists but after the same end…destroying democracy.

These are people that will say they are anti-trump and may truly hate the guy..but are after the same result. They are not a ‘saving the country’ type of political party but a guilt-free MAGA.

Hey it’s only my take, could be wrong.

Lovie777

(23,232 posts)
10. Another group paid for by the RW rich............................
Sat Mar 2, 2024, 10:10 AM
Mar 2024

to derail the Democratic party's presidential election and other 2024 election across board. With RWers in control of corporate media, the polling outfits, social media in part, propaganda runs rampant.

Constant bashing of Pres Biden and the constant bashing of Democrats in general and yea Democrats are not united and are in disarray.

That Pres Biden is not popular and he is old.

TwilightZone

(28,836 posts)
11. None of that appears to their focus.
Sat Mar 2, 2024, 10:13 AM
Mar 2024

On the surface, they're not saying anything is specifically wrong with Democrats -- they want one on the ticket -- their claimed issues are more with what they perceive to be partisanship, extremism and divisiveness. It's kind of like "both sides are bad" as a campaign strategy.

Bipartisanship and cooperation are fine ideas, of course, but most of the money going into the group appears to be from people like Harlan Crow and from the financial world, so there's not much reason to believe that's what they're really interested in.

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