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    4 months ago

    Haley is as bad as trump, she’s just not saying the quiet parts out loud.

    Normalizing her as “moderate” simply because she’s not trump only moves the Overton window towards the right.

    Biden needs all the votes he can get. I just don’t know why they spend so much time appealing to Republicans who will never vote D instead of courting independents or anyone on the left.

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      4 months ago

      Because they’re Diet Republicans. Years ago, Republicans were conservatives and Democrats were liberals. After Reagan trounced them in the 80s, the Democrats decided it was more important to be more like Republicans and have become more and more conservative with each election. Now Republicans are full on fascists and Democrats are the 1980s Republicans. And liberals have become 1980s conservatives. There is no mainstream representation for anyone who is actually left (i.e. communists, socialists, etc.).

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        4 months ago

        I mean. AOC. Bernie. They’re pretty left and they’re in office.

        I get being cynical, for true. But don’t give up. Winning the election is a new start. We can fix it.

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          4 months ago

          I respectively disagree. IMO, they’re centrists, Neither are communists nor socialists.

          Both campaigned on being left. But what have their actions been since they got into office? Campaigning and in-office actions are not always the same.

          In Bernie’s case he used to be left, but when Biden got in office he has bent the knee and been milquetoast centrist. And AOC is Pelosi 2.0. Doesn’t care about anything except making money and protecting her own image. She’s full of shit. In any other country she’d be right wing.