State Of The Nonsense

[Alan V]

I think that yon is referring to the tendency of new dems to include themselves in stuff like repealing glass steagal, or providing the votes required to pass trickle down policies.  It's a thing, it happened.  It was dems that initially tanked obamacare, as well.  It was a democratic senate that refused to hold a vote on cap and trade, under a dem potus.  That wing of the party is nothing more or less than a set of socially liberal (and not always) neoconservatives.  Neoconservatives were nothing more or less than socially conservative neoliberals.  From clinton to bush to obama..both parties have flirted with this strategy, which is more a game theory of wining elections than anything else.

Troublingly...recent polls indicate that "electability" s the most important criteria in a dem challenger to the current admin.  That means dino.

Then it seems to me that Yonadav has a problem with the Republicans and the specific Democrats who vote with them, rather than with the Democratic party as a whole.  Or perhaps he has a problem with the ignorance of the voters who support Republicans and their policies, as I do as well.  Those are the kinds of problems we have in a big-tent party.

My own solution is fairly simple: you can't compromise with liars.  That's why I support Pelosi in refusing to compromise with Trump, who is obviously lying about a border emergency.  Democrats need a backbone if anything.  Our policies are just fine as far as I can see (until someone actually points out what's specifically wrong with our platform).