It’s clear America needs to reckon with its fucked political system, but to in order to do that and not arrive at this exact same point you must be able to understand the problem and the way the Democrats walked hand in hand with Republicans to get here.
Thinking pragmatically… you could put your energies into lobbying for voting reforms such as rank-choice voting. This could encourage the growth of minor parties and independents. It’s crazy you don’t have many options to choose from in America.
or Canada and UK, which keep pretending they aren't lumbered with a failed, designed-antidemocratic FPTP
louder so Canada can fucking hear you
Oh, they really aren't ready for that cuz. Still trying to Orange Man Bad their way out of this
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Yeah, how's that goin
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Being shown something I'm blocked. New one there
But David Brooks is a Republican.
He's got plenty of Dem company agreeing with him daily. "[I consider myself] on the rightward edge of the leftward tendency—in the more promising soil of the moderate wing of the Democratic Party." - David Brooks, 2017 (we know that that "soil" is full of toxic and racist manure)
He considers himself a “moderate Democrat”
He was always a Republucan before. Same with Bill Kristol - always a Republican. I think they just don't like Trumpism
Only because he says the Trumpists have moved the republican party too far to the right. He calls himself an "exiled republican."
What?! He does?? The way he talked about every Democrat policy and president on the PBS Newshour Friday political discussion sure has/d me convinced he was a hard-core Reagan Republican this whole time!
He aims to give the Democratic party tailoring such that it fits his (still) Republican politics, along with Lincoln Project, MeidasTouch, The Bulwark, and others who also wish to continue destroying political parties in the U.S. with their mealy-mouthed 'moderation.'
The terms "moderate" and "centrist" are vacuous. They mean nothing. How can we tell when a policy is moderate? Are there any principles at work? Nope.
I guess I stopped paying attention to him years ago. But he has supported Republican policies and positions for most of his career, with the typical deceit. There is no shame in public life anymore. link.motherjones.com/public/30899...
