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I never understand their shock when constituents aren't excited to vote for them. They've become the Party of One Step Forward — who are eternally meeting in the middle with the Party of Five Steps Back.

When we were young, Democrats were the party fighting for gay marriage, wage equality, etc. In the last ten years they've been the party slowly capitulating, surrendering everything they achieved.

They've spent my entire adult life telling their most reliant voter blocs that they'd rather chase a guy who's never voted for them than advocate for them. The way top Dems talk about people who live in cities is so vapid. Not shocked at all that DSA has had so much success in places like NYC.

republicans certainly believed that’s what the democrats were. in the wake of the cold war, the party took that as the reason they lost 5 out of 6 presidential elections in a row rather than acknowledging it was a simple matter of the dixiecrats finding a new political home after lbj betrayed them.

And then while there's a ton of valid left-wing criticism of Obama, I think at least one thing you can say for the man is that he genuinely and intentionally shifted the overton window in many ways.

I'm going to be charitable and assume you actually read and comprehended my very first sentence about Obama and thus aren't arguing with me. But uh.... How exactly are you imagining that would have gone down in the alternate history where Obama attempted to prosecute Bush for war crimes?

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Why would it sound insane, that’s how they’ve always marketed themselves.

They were before they turned neo lib corpratists