(February 8, 2019 at 10:03 am)Thoreauvian Wrote:(February 8, 2019 at 9:17 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: 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.
We have had this confrontation over and over. I have corrected you about this more times than I can count. When have I ever argued against the Democratic Party as a whole? My criticisms are primarily directed at The New Democrats and vapid negative partisans who keep supporting them.
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