Former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have both been added to Donald Trump’s transition team. Both endorsed Trump in recent days.
It’s just a little bit fucking wild that Sanders was the only real progressive in 2016, because he’s the only one who hasn’t turned tail and started endorsing Trump.
We really need to be more aware how deeply conservatives are trying to turn progressives.
That’s why I’m incredibly skeptical of some of the “leftist” accounts that constantly go out of their way to exclusively demonize the Democratic Party.
As one of those leftists, it’s sad but understandable for people to be skeptical at this point.
I have a lot of issues with the Democratic party, but its because I don’t have another party to vote for. I could waste my time critiquing Republicans, but they’re so far off the map of rationality that it feels silly and pointless. Democrats are still at least offering positions that can be critiqued outside “that was an outright lie” which is all you can say about Republican “policies.”
I try to frontload those comments to make clear nothing could ever convince me to vote Republican or withhold my vote when they’re trying to fucking roll over democracy into autocracy.
Existing studies and comprehensive reviews often find only limited support and only under certain conditions; they generally contradict the theory’s central premises.
It’s populism. You have to see if someone’s policy positions are consistent over time, that they have a specific ideal they are following, vs what they think is the most popular policies.
Granted, it’s a huge pain with new politicians when they don’t have that history, but I think Tulsi had a pretty clear history that showed she wasn’t progressive.
It’s just a little bit fucking wild that Sanders was the only real progressive in 2016, because he’s the only one who hasn’t turned tail and started endorsing Trump.
We really need to be more aware how deeply conservatives are trying to turn progressives.
That’s why I’m incredibly skeptical of some of the “leftist” accounts that constantly go out of their way to exclusively demonize the Democratic Party.
As one of those leftists, it’s sad but understandable for people to be skeptical at this point.
I have a lot of issues with the Democratic party, but its because I don’t have another party to vote for. I could waste my time critiquing Republicans, but they’re so far off the map of rationality that it feels silly and pointless. Democrats are still at least offering positions that can be critiqued outside “that was an outright lie” which is all you can say about Republican “policies.”
I try to frontload those comments to make clear nothing could ever convince me to vote Republican or withhold my vote when they’re trying to fucking roll over democracy into autocracy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory
From that link
It’s populism. You have to see if someone’s policy positions are consistent over time, that they have a specific ideal they are following, vs what they think is the most popular policies.
Granted, it’s a huge pain with new politicians when they don’t have that history, but I think Tulsi had a pretty clear history that showed she wasn’t progressive.
She was openly against gay people up until only about a few years ago when she switched to being against trans people.