1st August 2019, 10:49 AM
Getting upset that governors and mayors are left with the task of implementing sweeping change on a local level was a strange one. That's their JOB. What are they complaining about? That would be like garbage disposers complaining that their work sure is a lot tougher after the parade. Well of course it is, but that's the job isn't it? I'm not saying support and coordination aren't a part of it, of course they are (in the same way you hire more people to handle the garbage in preparation for parade day), but geez, if we're really terrified of change because change is hard, we're doomed.
As you might imagine, I thought Warren and Sanders both performed very well, and they're the ones everyone's quoting today, so I'd say they got their names out there. Once again, I never really considered "name recognition" a big deal when it comes to primaries. When the dust settles and the party's picked their candidate, do you really think whoever it is, and I mean literally anyone, won't instantly become a household name overnight? Of course they will. Name recognition is not an issue right now. Oh and yes, I clearly want a more progressive Democratic party. I'm sick of the moderates parroting Republican talking points as their own.
Trump just quoted some other republican's line "A moderate socialist is still a socialist". This is the point. It doesn't matter how far the moderates try to swing their party to seem more "acceptable" to republicans. That ship sailed ages ago. It doesn't work any more. ANY mention of health care change, at all, in any form, is now "socialism" and evil and a violation of God's divine will. I'm not even exaggerating. The modern republican literally believes that the Republican party is the party of God, chosen BY God, in this dark and evil time. THAT is what you have to cut through to reach a republican voter, a religious conviction that their party is right. You don't do that by putting on a Reagan mask and pretending to be a republican. You do that by being radical, embracing it, and explaining to the rust belt WHY the republican party has failed them and why democrat policies will benefit them.
As you might imagine, I thought Warren and Sanders both performed very well, and they're the ones everyone's quoting today, so I'd say they got their names out there. Once again, I never really considered "name recognition" a big deal when it comes to primaries. When the dust settles and the party's picked their candidate, do you really think whoever it is, and I mean literally anyone, won't instantly become a household name overnight? Of course they will. Name recognition is not an issue right now. Oh and yes, I clearly want a more progressive Democratic party. I'm sick of the moderates parroting Republican talking points as their own.
Trump just quoted some other republican's line "A moderate socialist is still a socialist". This is the point. It doesn't matter how far the moderates try to swing their party to seem more "acceptable" to republicans. That ship sailed ages ago. It doesn't work any more. ANY mention of health care change, at all, in any form, is now "socialism" and evil and a violation of God's divine will. I'm not even exaggerating. The modern republican literally believes that the Republican party is the party of God, chosen BY God, in this dark and evil time. THAT is what you have to cut through to reach a republican voter, a religious conviction that their party is right. You don't do that by putting on a Reagan mask and pretending to be a republican. You do that by being radical, embracing it, and explaining to the rust belt WHY the republican party has failed them and why democrat policies will benefit them.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)