I think first, it’s because the GOP has become the party of Trump and is going down the cliff with him. Every once in a while there’re some “concerned” detractors but they have proven to be spineless. The Dem party on the other hand can still live up to the name “the big tent” and allow different voices to coexist. Personally I think it’s a good thing although the media tends to picture it as “Dems in disarray”.
Anther reason is that, since the Dem party is more diverse, it’s more exciting to write about its divisions. There are tons of articls about the “catfights” and conflicted interests among different racial and gender group. You can’t do that with GOP because they’re basically all white males. I think there’re actually some bias(sexism, racism, etc.)and stereotypes in these reports.
Philip May’s home movie of his honeymoon.
In other words, she’s perfectly happy going down with the Ship of Centrist Fools, but she’ll still have great health care, a vineyard and 100 million bucks. The rest of us…not so much.
She’s a Capitalist, and that’s the way it is. Believe her.
There aren’t ANY “far-left” candidates running, unless you are counting Mike Gravel. Bernie would be considered a moderate by global standards.
It sure seems that way, doesn’t it? Almost like they would prefer another 4 years of Trump to Bernie Sanders.
Just think of the momentum Bernie would have if the DNC actually supported him, rather that attempting to undercut him at every opportunity.
Depends on what you call center. Politics has moved away from a single-axis model to a two- or three-axis model. A modern mixed economy should be about 40% public goods and services and 60% private goods and services, because that is the most effective way to produce those services. At 36-37% the US is running a bit thin in the public sector and it has too much debt from undertaxing. Conservatives in Sweden do not campaign against national healthcare, they argue it has to be efficient. Similarly, Swedish liberals do not campaign against a strong military, but rather call for more effective diplomacy and understanding of the prerequisites of peace. While messaging should be simple, American politicians tend to underestimate the intelligence of the electorate. Finland just had its parliamentary elections and climate change and environmental protection were on the agenda, right down to methane release in peatlands and tributyltin oxide.
Keep cheering for the donor class and their Queen Nancy! Gotta hold that center!
“It doesn’t look as though the burden that taxes place on economic growth has been lightened in the last generation, but rather that a distributional decision has been taken to be tougher on the poor and more generous to the rich.”
"This extraordinary chart from Saravelos could perhaps be of use to progressive Democrats. In terms of post-tax income, the 34 years to 1980 (when Ronald Reagan and the low-tax agenda arrived) saw virtually everybody in the U.S. double their income, apart from the very wealthy. The years since have seen almost half the population fail to register any growth in their income at all, while the very wealthiest have enjoyed extraordinary growth."
Obama, Biden, and Pelosi, all “centerists,” did nothing to stop this trend. The economic “recovery” (ha ha) under Obama was great for the top 5% but did very little for the rest of us.
The numbers don’t lie.
But you do.
Yep, personal attacks are all you got. The numbers tell the truth, and I just showed you the numbers.
Your bullshit had nothing to do with what I posted.
.
The “bullshit” I posted shows what failure centrist Democrat policies have been for most of Americans.
The “centrists” led by Pelosi, Obama, the Clintons, and Biden have been great for building the wealth and security of the donor class, but not much at all for the rest of us.
We need a progressive candidate in 2020 to beat Trump, and we are likely to have one.
No youre right. This is where the bubble gets bubbly. People on the internet think the rest of the country is like us. No it isn’t. It is far more moderate.
See my reply to MoscowGeorgii above.
Only if you believe what Republicans and the Donor Class want you to believe. National polls repeatedly tell a completely different story. Link:
Most Americans Are Liberal, Even If They Don’t Know It
Don’t believe it? Check out these polls.
Nah, that’s mostly just georgeh, a well-known purity troll who’s been ranting here for years. You could write a bot that would do his work for him: Pelosi bad, Obama bad, Clinton bad, DNC bad, etc. Throw in a few mindless slogans all in bold and you’d have 90% of his output here.
Your “numbers” demonstrated precisely nothing about the electorate and whether a far-left candidate would win.
That is not the way that people vote. We’ve always had that disconnect between the polls and the votes. Or, for that matter, the disconnect between polls based on what was being polled and how it was framed. The gap between what people say they believe in and which candidate they actually vote for can be as wide as the Grand Canyon.
Nancy remembers Chicago in 68. Can we please not repeat that? Always ask whom the meme serves. “Dem Division” for instance.
You’re absolutely right.
Since they don’t know it then they won’t vote it. They’ll vote what they think which is that they are centrists.