"Defund The Police" and "Democratic Socialism" are political losers

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103. there are no socialists in the Democratic party, that is a RW talking point for almost 90 years

years going back to FDR's first term, and the handful of falsely labelling 'democratic socialists' need to drop that ridiculous label, as they are NOT remotely socialist and it only serves to further push a RW meme, Even if that small small group did not exist, the Rethugs would STILL call every Democratic candidate a commie and a socialist. It is what they do.

liberal positions?

in the rest of the world liberal means centre-right (as in deregulation, pro big business, pro big bans, pro free (NEVER fair) trade, doing away with the welfare state as much as is feasible (and even on that it is NOTHING like what the insane RW (and to prove my point, what the CENTRE right in the US wants) in the US wants to do. Liberal in most every other advanced nation is expressed as the right wing form of neoliberalism (as opposed to (yet meeting at certain inflection points) the also odious US so-called leftish, third way form, which is ideologically shared by the Blairites in the UK)

there also is no 'radical' (in reality for anywhere else in a advanced democratic nation) agenda

that is a RW talking point that is so ingrained that many in own our party maddening use it

this (what you are saying)

It is easy to lecture someone in St. Louis or El Paso while sitting in the Bronx, Cambridge or Berkeley.

is framing straight out of the Rethug Giingrich/Hastert/Boehner/Ryan playbook

smdh

What's next? 'San Francisco values'????


also, people in the Democratic Party truly need to stop using the term

far left wing

it is RW talking point (and feeds their shit even further) and ludicrous

their is no actually 'far left' persons in elected national American politics, not on any other advanced democratic nation's scale

not a single Dem would be considered far left in most every other advanced western nation

the US is so artificially skewed to the right that most people have utterly lost all tethering to the reality of what is actually left and right

Bernie and AOC would be milquetoast, bog standard centre left to middle left social democrats in most all advanced Western democratic nations

the entire political axis of the US is SO off centre

if it keeps moving rightward the dystopian nightmare that will arise of a government composed of 'centrists' in terms of THAT axis (if it continues to drift ever-rightward) actually IS will result in a systemic collapse, not to mention that it allows the already batshit crazy RW to go absolutely FULL STOP nationalistic, christofascistic white nationalism

the rightward drift ends now