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In reply to the discussion: Warren and Sanders race to out-left each other -- and moderates are terrified [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)15. Heck, where's the evidence for ANY moderates except moderate liberals?
Whenever I see posts smearing the party's huge liberal base as some kind of hybrid conservatives I know they're dishonest.
As a regular old liberal and very like Pelosi, though, I believe we must tax the new billionaire and centimillionaire classes into oblivion. But it must be successful and must be sustainable. This huge job is one for the pros, just as it was back in the 1930s.
Even if they could win, a big if, radicals, who are typically blindly disrespectful of the will of a majority of our over 200 million registered voters, would be liable to just lose the nation to the Republicans in 2024. And we cannot have all gains reversed before they're even implemented. Including a presumed MfA, shut down by a new Republican president and congress halfway into implementation.
"We can have democracy in this country,
or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few,
but we can't have both."
Nancy Pelosi to the nation at the opening of the 116th congress.
or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few,
but we can't have both."
Nancy Pelosi to the nation at the opening of the 116th congress.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
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Warren and Sanders race to out-left each other -- and moderates are terrified [View all]
JoeOtterbein
Oct 2019
OP
It was a passion-free, curb your enthusiasm, Lee Atwater-infected kind of deal
BeyondGeography
Oct 2019
#19
Ummmmm no they don't. There are plenty right here who agree with this, including me. nt
UniteFightBack
Oct 2019
#32
the moderates I know aren't terrified at all, as america is a center-left country and
beachbumbob
Oct 2019
#7
NEW POLL: Nearly half of Americans think Democrats have moved too far to the left
Gothmog
Oct 2019
#9
Yes. My understanding of arithmetic (not even math yet) says that 53% beats 47%,
Blue_true
Oct 2019
#21
Why public opinion polls don't include the same number of Republicans and Democrats
Gothmog
Oct 2019
#29
I liked that about 83% of Democrats approve of the Progressive shift in the party from your poll.
Autumn
Oct 2019
#30
There are more moderates and slightly liberals in the party than expreme liberals
Gothmog
Oct 2019
#37
i am kinda encouraged that 21% of repubs like the leftward thinking
questionseverything
Oct 2019
#51
If the people are really where you say they are, wouldn't there less "centrist" Democrats...
George II
Oct 2019
#44
Are you saying everyone but Bernie is a neoliberal? Very strange. I recall
comradebillyboy
Oct 2019
#28
I don't know how many Democrats qualify to be labeled "moderate" but I doubt that there are
abqtommy
Oct 2019
#16
I can't decide if it's good or bad that Warren is doing Sanders' 7 minute abs against him.
betsuni
Oct 2019
#25
Any evidence of "terror" on the part of moderates? And who are the moderates, anyway?
yardwork
Oct 2019
#31
Perhaps terrified is too strong an adjective but I am quite concerned and a little bit
UniteFightBack
Oct 2019
#34
Well I certainly am not terrified. And I don't know anyone else who is either.
totodeinhere
Oct 2019
#53