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In reply to the discussion: Why the sudden urge to move the party right? [View all]BainsBane
(57,717 posts)It's holding conservatives who oppose women's rights above liberal Democrats, celebrating them as "progressive" and the "future of the party." We all know voters have limited choices, especially in red states. Then people run around and normalize those positiosn and insist women need to acquiesce to their rights being undermined.
And why should any Democrat outside of Omaha even care about who becomes Mayor of Omaha? Unlike the congressional race in GA, it has no impact on the the national party. A mayor doesn't influence redistricting or control elections. Why Omaha over Provo or Oklahoma City? Why Omaha over the GA congressional race that does influence national politics? What is so important about one mayor's race in Nebraska? Nothing. The only thing it offers is an opportunity to try to reorient the party away from support of equal rights. And the subsequent efforts to normalize anti-choice by men demonstrates support for that effort. It exposes the rhetoric about economic justice as artifice, as something they actively oppose rather than support. Increased wealth for one demographic, whose income already well above the national median, at the expense of increased poverty for the majority is to not economic justice--it is worsening inequality.
What Hillary Clinton superpac? What are you even talking about? She is out of politics. Yet you can't get off the deceptive talking points. Yet you can't stop scapegoating her for absolutely no reason. That kind of contempt for the truth is appalling.