I am shocked, I say. Shocked! Well, not that shocked.
I am shocked, I say. Shocked! Well, not that shocked.
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"Hello, I'm a Republican Consultant/Former-Politician and I'm here to offer the Democrats some friendly campaign advise. Have you tried just agreeing with us on everything? Perhaps even going out to the right of us, so you look even more conservative with your rhetoric than you did on paper? And try appealing more to white people - straight middle-aged men in particular? More! More! You're doing great! You're going to win in a landslide!"
One Vote Later
Democrats Shed Massive Numbers of Women and Minorities, In Historic Underperformance on Election Day
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Centrist "both sides" is the most milquetoast, bad faith shit possible.
Leftist "both sides" is about how at the end of the day, politicians want to look strong for being re-elected. And they is often keeping themselves and their cronies in power by any means necessary. From rigging elections and primaries, to underfunding government programs that enable higher levels of thinking, to even international assassinations.
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It’s because most people don’t like right wingers, and they know it, so they try to hide behind that.
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most people don’t like right wingers
Most people don't like retail politics, generally speaking. It's alienating and inaccessible. It feels like you're getting in on the ground floor of an MLM with no practical way to rise through the ranks. And it forces you to support people far better at talking rich people out of their donor dollars than votes out of the neighborhood. They're folks you'll find smug, shitty, and morally repulsive if you ever have to share a room with them.
The degree of cynicism people feel blunts any kind of revolutionary rhetoric. Meanwhile, their fear of things getting worse leaves them suspicious of any kind of advertised sweeping change. So you end up with bland, toothless centrism as a default position that meets the low expectations voters have cultivated.
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Oh yeah. I know/knew several NY Republicans who are all “fiscally conservative and socially liberal” people, who only vote on economic policy.
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Oh yeah, the “I act like I’m smarter than everyone but I’m actually a fucking idiot who’s never actually read a book on economics and gets all his info from uncited YouTube videos, also I’m going to be super condescending about it” type of guy. Those guys are the worst.
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and how's that working out for them this time around?
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