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In reply to the discussion: AOC: "...concerted effort from the Democratic side to unseat me..." [View all]Hortensis
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legislative achievement if only I could. Her colleagues would if they could.
The only progressivism that's real is action that advances society's wellbeing. It's not just a label chosen by a faction.
I've been liberal and progressive all my life. The many millions like me are what we are; we don't wobble around ideologically, and we would never throw progressive goals under the bus and betray the people who need them for personal political gain. That's key to identifying the real thing.
And who WERE all these liberal progressive Democrats who really did make America great in the last century but are portrayed has having to be dragged left after the 1990s by people, including some kid (literally), who obviously didn't know who they were and what they believed in?
I remember the bad 1990s well, btw, when mass manipulation shifted a majority of voters to the right.
Those included a minority but critical percentage who'd been voting Democratic but just decided they were tired of the Democrats' liberal progressive products. All of a sudden we were losing hundreds of seats across the nation. The party had to adjust to what a majority of voters demanded, but the party's liberal progressive ideals haven't changed in a century. And people who despise us for what we are have nothing to do with who we are. Those are their Big Lies.
Btw, democracy and representative government are core Democratic values that have never shifted. Nationally at least, real liberal progressives don't do election theft and we don't deceive voters to trick them into supporting what they don't want. We're unique that way, and consistent.
Farther to the left and right, unfortunately, there quickly be dragons.