It's not just anecdotal, but this guy obviously had a list selected on some sort of political axis. You don't get "communist" complaints if your list is about getting out the vote in core Democratic bases.
Coney Barrett was confirmed in 39 days. If the whole caucus was on board it could definitely be done, but Sinema would probably sell us out.
Biden's win was NOT a confirmation of his campaign's correctness. That should have been an easy election but he barely won.
The post notably included the statement:
that’s not the kind of thing that should happen without the community agreeing to it
With no voices in support in the original post and currently the only two voices in support here being the mods themselves.
Democracy is "not for" a lot of people. They're lazy. They don't think it impacts their lives. They don't want to put in the mental effort to follow politics and make a good decision, so they just leave it to other people. You certainly know someone in your extended social circle who is just "not political".
But that doesn't change anything. The conservatives find a way to motivate their morons, they don't complain about non-voters and then just wish it were better. Some of your "not political" friends probably went out to vote for Obama.
Yeah, monarchies are usually inherited.
And football is theoretically the thing he's good at.
They'll keep rolling her out for campaigns like do with Bill Clinton. They view reaching high station in the party as being perpetually loved by the rank and file.
WHAT SOCIAL PROGRAM?? The Democrats didn't run on any of this woke mind virus bullshit you're complaining about. Trans people were the target of choice for the conservatives despite being basically a miniscule sliver of the population and Democrats just mumbled some generic pablum about privacy and compassion before changing the topic as quickly as possible. In no remote sense was "trans rights" a purity test for the Democrats, as clearly evidenced by all the fucking Republicans involved in the campaign.
This is just divorced from reality, and maybe that's the real sentiment you two have landed on, but it's not because the Democrats did anything to foster it.
We’ll never know for sure but there is a clear divide on people who believe progressives were ignored and others that say the party is too extreme left.
And the important difference between them is any rational mind will see that there wasn't much further right the party could be and even pretend to be Democrats. What more could have been sacrificed in the name of expediency? Proposing some trans bans rather than just mumbling and changing the subject? Embracing a state by state abortion-rights regime? Lowering taxes for the top 1%?
Like the only progressive thing I can remember was expanding Medicare services. And I'm pretty sure promising old people more stuff isn't what the "too far left" people are talking about. There were probably some whitepapers somewhere with tightly restricted benefits that might qualify as something a conservative thinks is progressive, but if so they were basically announced once and then ignored. A campaign isn't really about the words in its platform, it's about what it spends time talking about and promoting.
It is, as long as we say they're both right and make sure neither side's theory of politics is ever tried again.
The main difference is that Trump was president at the time. Before people didn't think it could be that bad, and four years after people had forgotten the chaos (2020 election was in the middle of COVID). It was a change election, and Harris was unwilling to try to be a change candidate because it would involve saying Biden did something wrong.
People point to sexism because it's an easy out. "The people are bad, so all we need to do is nominate a man" means it's a simple matter of internalizing their misogyny and then we win, when the throughline of three bad elections (Biden's was bad) is uninspiring politics about slow and steady government being all you need. In one instance we had an immediate example of what a government by an amateur outsider could do so a plea for normalcy produced some benefit, but it still didn't knock it out of the park when everything should have been in its favor.