31st March 2017, 3:01 PM
I think the critical difference in our views is that you think that being openly liberal is an insurmountable weakness, and we think it's the only way forward. You think the true liberal goals need to be covered up or coated in a layer of old time country boy in order for the public to swallow it, and we think such disguises aren't fooling anyone, and never really did, and the key isn't to focus on winning over republicans but in winning over the left-leaning non-voter who's disenfranchised with the whole system. In the end, that's the point I'm really trying to argue, Sanders and Clinton aside.
"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)