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fujiyamasan

(1,053 posts)
6. The funny thing is
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 01:28 AM
Nov 10

I still consider myself a moderate democrat, (or used to by today’s ideological standards). Now I guess I’m a radical leftist.

All I expected was a coherent strategy to preserve one of the more significant pieces of healthcare legislation in over half a century. I didn’t necessarily expect democrats to win, because the other party wants to burn the country to ashes, but if you’re going to start a fight, you see it through, or at least extract some concessions from the other side, or let the other side make a really drastic move like resorting to the nuclear option.

This didn’t even feel ideological. It’s just looked like a cop out. It made the party look feckless and incompetent. Why the dog and pony show in the first place? They could have rolled over and played dead weeks ago.

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They just served shit sandwiches at the senate picnic and we all have to take a bite. nt yaesu Nov 9 #1
Oh thank the gods someone documented the horrors moderates have saved us from LearnedHand Nov 10 #2
And people wonder why I have such contempt FoxNewsSucks Nov 10 #3
Best thread of the night, as far as I'm concerned. Duncan Grant Nov 10 #4
so called "moderates" caving anti-repub Nov 10 #11
"The best we could do was surrender everything!" durablend Nov 10 #15
Lina Khan, anything environment or regulation related jfz9580m Nov 10 #5
The funny thing is fujiyamasan Nov 10 #6
I'm still an "update the New Deal"-type who thinks my views are quite moderate. But "centrists" say I'm radical left JHB Nov 10 #7
Moderates Cowards surrendering ‼️ flying-skeleton Nov 10 #8
Moderates won last week elections when everyone was so proud of the "blue wave" question everything Nov 10 #9
Zohran Mamdani is a moderate? Polybius Nov 10 #12
One compared to all the others. We are not a monolithic party, thankfully. question everything Nov 10 #13
Thank-you ms.pamela Nov 10 #10
DURec leftstreet Nov 10 #14
You would think with all these moderate accomplishments Emile Nov 10 #16
Thank you for this post. Celerity Nov 10 #17
Moderates are perfectly fine with the way things are and that needs to be pointed out every time one asserts that. AStern Nov 10 #18
Even the Third Way denounced this cave in Hassler Nov 10 #19
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