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In reply to the discussion: Score a victory for moderates [View all]HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)I mean, I know I'D be if I had a 7-year losing streak to some of the worst homophobic, anti-science, anti-woman, anti-progress troglodytes around, capped off with losing to the WORST Presidential candidate in American history.
This despite stock performance, overall economic performance, job growth, consumer confidence and government frugality all historically positive under Democratic rule.
Point is, it shouldn't have taken the plane-crash disaster presidency of a Fascist human Cheeto to wake people up.
If the message was on point, the party not fractured and supporters of a more progressive agenda not dismissed as leftist dreamers, we wouldn't be IN this situation.
Part of the "fracture" is the sort of digs and division you're obviously displaying here.
We're going to have to decide what sort of future we leave our children and grandchildren when the Boomers go to the rest homes and GenX retires (theoretically). Leaving UBI, an increased minimum wage, decreasing college costs substantially and instituting multi-payer either out of the discussion or off to the sidelines is doing nothing but kicking the can on your way to a debt-blanketed nightmare.