So I waited until the dust settled after the TN election to suggest this, but....

[markodochartaigh]

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labels of "moderate," "conservative," "liberal," and even "left," and "right," are starting to seem a bit quaint these days."

In a country where the right is fed heavily on a diet of actual propaganda fed through an Overton Window shifting constantly rightward, where one third of the country is so apathetic towards politics that they can't be bothered to vote, and where civics education has been suppressed for decades, I think that it is inevitable that political labels would become almost useless.

I think that Bernie is correct when he eschews labels and personalities and focuses laser-like on specific policies.