(February 20, 2019 at 11:19 am)Yonadav Wrote:(February 20, 2019 at 10:34 am)DLJ Wrote: US politics is plagued with weak semantics.
No wonder their media finds it so easy to manipulate muddled minds.
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Tell me about. I have to live here. Over in the thread about differences between right and left, some of the guys described the left using memes based in right of center talking points against the left as if those talking points described the left. When I laughed at that, one of them doubled down on their confusion by calling me a centrist. I keep running into these very, very confused people who confuse my obviously very, very far left political views with (inexplicably) conservative Republican views. Our 'left' has become inundated with people who are provisionally socially liberal, but fervently support Reagan style economic policies that they deny are Reaganomics.
HOLY FUCKING CRAP.
Economically there is no economic left in politics. If you want to argue that our "left" is slightly right of center right now. I AGREE.
But not because of our politicians, but 40 years of VOTER APATHY in midterms and 40 years of GOP gerrymandering.
Stop thinking short term. One fucking election is not going to change things over night. Reagan's failed trickle down is not what I support. I do however support a long term strategy.
Lets say Bernie wins and becomes President. He still cannot act like a dictator and change things over night. He'd still be dealing with 3 co equal branches. So you cannot make it about him, the person. It still has to be long term involvement by the voter in every election every year.
Our democratic politicians HAVE been pulled economically to the right over the past 40 years. But again, a politician is only as strong as the support we give them. Dems have to vote locally state and national every year. We have to control the narrative. We have to give no matter whom we elect the daily support. I agree economically there is no economic left.
But that has more to do with 40 years of lack of voter participation in local and off years. WE CAN WIN and beat the GOP, but it cannot be a one day in November issue. It has to be the same long term planning the GOP has crushed dems with.
