Regardless of the accuracy of what you assume to be my innermost thoughts, what does that have to do with anything? The United States is a patriarchal, heteronormative country with to many privileged people who would prefer to pretend that the rest of the world doesn’t exist.
John you are absolutely confusing the use of certain words as policy statements. You do understand the concept of strategy?
Centrism doesn’t win elections.
Clearly not. Neither does far left policies. Or Bernie Sanders would be president.
Not even close to a salient political point. “Third way” is just trying to give in to Christian nationalists on trans rights. We did not get Trump because a couple Democratic politicians stood up for trans people.
I point you to Gov. Andy Beshear. A Democrat who knows how to win in a red state and still be an ally to progressives. Gov. Andy Beshear's conversion therapy, Medicaid coverage for gender-affirming care in KY veto overturned. share.google/EizbaEj5r4SW...
Unfortunately the people of this stupid state who elected him also elected a supermajority of Republicans.
This seems to be an example of a Democrat, who successfully pretended to be close enough to a republican to get elected and has temporarily stalled the terroristic, fascist tactics of the GOP. Not exactly a great example. It’s just forestalling the inevitable.
Well that's just an ignorant statement, and you clearly know nothing about Andy Beshear. Discussion is over. Have a great morning. I'm muting you now.
“You know nothing about…” Jesus what a cop out. He may be successfully for stalling tactics, but he is not going to be the savior of the Democrat party. What progressive policies has he passed? It sounds like you only have examples of him stopping the damage from the GOP.
And how is he relevant to this discussion?
He's a model for effective messaging.
If that’s the case, which I don’t accept as true just yet because you haven’t given me any examples of it, then show me what his messaging actually is and how it aligns with this third way “strategy.” Then, show me examples of Democrats who have lost their positions because they ignored the advice.
Yes. And I understand what happens when you give up policy to conservatives. They call that the new normal. I am not going to give up my rights or my visibility in order to win bigot votes. Racing to the middle is always a disaster.