I’ve been engaging more with progressives, and even saying it out loud: I’m left. I’m progressive. Do I agree with everything they say or do? No. But that’s okay. We’re in the fight together. More specifically, I’m a pragmatic progressive. 4.
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aug 6, 2025, 5:00 pm • 0 0 • view
I believe in bold, progressive policies—but I’m not going to let the perfect be the enemy of the good. We have to win elections. Republicans are not just a bad option. They’re a dangerous one. I don’t share their values, and I won’t pretend there’s common ground when there isn’t. 5.
aug 6, 2025, 3:57 am • 784 101 • view
moderate corporate democrats need to stop trashing progressives & independents, who dont matter to them in the least until they shame us into voting at election time. they say vote blue no matter whom...until its a progressive running, & then they scream FUCK NO, NOT HIM.!! & rob us of our vote.
aug 6, 2025, 5:25 am • 1 1 • view
i was FURIOUS abt biden being slammed onto the ticket when bernie was the frontrunner, & i was FURIOUS when they said, after the election, that "progressives won us the election", like i predicted they'd say. fcking liars....our black brothers & sisters won us that election.!
aug 6, 2025, 5:30 am • 0 1 • view
I prefer progressive over liberal
aug 6, 2025, 8:13 am • 0 0 • view
But in 2025, I learned something else. I will no longer support candidates who co-opt language from the right to attack the left just to chase white voters they think they lost in 2024. That’s not strategy. That’s betrayal. And it’s unacceptable. 6.
aug 6, 2025, 3:57 am • 945 113 • view
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aug 6, 2025, 4:18 pm • 1 0 • view
They can find someone else to support them. It won’t be me. That said, when it comes to general elections, I will always support Democrats. The stakes are too high not to. I am a pragmatic progressive, and I own it. -end
aug 6, 2025, 3:57 am • 848 77 • view
Why do you feel the need to qualify your progressive beliefs? STOP it. That is part of their strategy to divide and conquer. Stop buying their explanation. Being progressive IS pragmatic.
aug 6, 2025, 11:19 am • 0 0 • view
Thank you, for all you try to sum up. Truly needs to be said.
aug 7, 2025, 9:43 pm • 0 0 • view
I think there are MANY of us!!!
aug 6, 2025, 6:28 am • 2 0 • view
Pragmatic progressive is an oxymoron. You can’t tell me that after jumping on a progressive thread you heard any willingness from them to be pragmatic or open minded to any moderation if it means winning. They are purists who DO actually cause losses to dems.
aug 6, 2025, 11:22 am • 0 0 • view
Well said. I'll never support republicans, period.
aug 8, 2025, 1:10 pm • 0 0 • view
Support your candidate until you cannot support them any longer. And then support whomever is the Dem still in the race (fight). Because, as you say, voting Republican isn’t an option. But neither is staying home because your progressive candidate is no longer in the fight.
aug 7, 2025, 1:03 am • 3 0 • view
Thinking giving in to the bratty child will make them behave better is a fallacy we see all too often in this world. How we ended up with a bunch of white dudes my age acting like cartman.
aug 6, 2025, 4:04 am • 13 1 • view
I’ve long said that you cannot work with a party that reacts to us reaching across the aisle by shitting in our open hand. Compromise used to be possible, but now they just keep pushing the Overton Window to the right while we chase them. No more. We fight as lefties or die as a movement.
aug 6, 2025, 4:29 am • 4 1 • view
There. That.
aug 6, 2025, 4:33 am • 1 0 • view
No more bringing a butter knife to a street fight
aug 6, 2025, 5:40 am • 1 0 • view
That is what happened in Canada. We refused to let the rightwing nutbar lead this country through hard times
aug 6, 2025, 5:14 am • 3 0 • view
When the Democratic party did go for a Progressive in Moderate clothing, Clinton, she was vilified. But perhaps what this has all brought home is the compliance, how old a story it truly is. These people will consume us all and then other. Dominance. Media is follow the money, not right or left.
aug 6, 2025, 4:40 am • 0 0 • view
And also... impossible to surgically remove gender as a factor there. We don't know precisely, but we know it's a thing.
aug 6, 2025, 5:39 am • 1 0 • view
This is me. Vote the most progressive candidate in the race, always. Whether that is a moderate democrat or or ultra left, every one of them is better than every republican.
aug 6, 2025, 5:24 am • 7 0 • view
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aug 6, 2025, 6:39 pm • 0 0 • view
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aug 6, 2025, 6:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Right on. ✊️
aug 6, 2025, 4:46 am • 1 0 • view
aug 6, 2025, 5:36 am • 14 2 • view
Amen!
aug 6, 2025, 4:05 am • 2 0 • view
Unapologetically!
aug 6, 2025, 10:57 am • 0 0 • view
Feel every single thing you said here
aug 6, 2025, 5:20 am • 2 0 • view
another pragmatic progressive here. I did not like Hillary Clinton - she bent with every wind and was a corporate Democrat, but in the end I voted for her because I knew she was a far better choice that the Orange Cancer who ended up winning.
aug 7, 2025, 5:19 am • 1 0 • view
Pragmatic progressive. Left-leaning centrist. Practical local official. I have been all of those. I still work well w/others. But I will never vote for any Republican for anything. People who will trade away American ideals and democratic foreign allies (❤️ 🇨🇦🇺🇦) cant be trusted with power.
aug 6, 2025, 4:27 am • 11 2 • view
✊❤️❤️❤️✊
aug 10, 2025, 12:02 pm • 1 0 • view
aug 6, 2025, 11:22 am • 4 3 • view
sankara was a great man. like khadaffi, he threatened the usa control of africa.
aug 6, 2025, 5:19 pm • 0 0 • view
This is a pretty accurate description of me as well.
aug 6, 2025, 4:15 pm • 0 0 • view
The point about withdrawing support from democrats who co-opt language of the right to attack and disenfranchise progressives is an extremely important insight! We can disagree and discuss, but do not dismiss. Solidarity is how we defeat them.
aug 6, 2025, 3:05 pm • 2 0 • view
I often wonder… Did I become a progressive, or did the political spectrum get shifted so far to the right that the progressive label came to me?
aug 6, 2025, 4:24 am • 18 2 • view
Dems problems has been they are cowards and are afraid of articulating why they support something like freedom from religious tyranny, AKA, pro-life fascists. They struggle with being able to connect the dots (like why would men care about bodily autonomy and listening to scientists and experts?)
aug 6, 2025, 8:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Progressive policies are not as popular as polls claim they are. The more bigoted voters are, the more they vote against what they claim to support in single-issue polls. This is a VERY bigoted culture, and that means real support for progressive policies is MUCH lower than it appears to be.
aug 6, 2025, 7:58 am • 4 1 • view
“I will no longer support candidates who co-opt language from the right to attack the left just to chase white voters they think they lost in 2024.” But: “When it comes to general elections, I will always support Democrats.”…
aug 11, 2025, 7:54 pm • 1 0 • view
…Which begs the question: What if the only Democratic candidate in a general election is one who “co-opts language from the right to attack the left?”
aug 11, 2025, 7:54 pm • 0 0 • view
BLESS YOU!!!
aug 6, 2025, 4:57 pm • 2 0 • view
I love this. As Progressives we need to work with Democrats, and show up for Democrats in the general elections. We can’t go it alone. But we also need to push from inside. Show up to Dem Primaries! We should also organize as Progressives. Could be a Democratic club, or WFP, or Indivisible…
aug 6, 2025, 4:21 am • 2 0 • view
Think about how a powerful progressive caucus in the house can push the democrats left... just like the freedom caucus pushes the R's right.
aug 6, 2025, 5:27 am • 3 0 • view
same
aug 6, 2025, 4:51 am • 5 0 • view
👏👏👏👏👏
aug 6, 2025, 11:25 am • 1 0 • view
💚🙏🏼💪🏼✊🏼
aug 6, 2025, 9:28 am • 1 0 • view
I'm an old, what's called in Texas, yellow dog Democrat. But, now...
aug 6, 2025, 11:53 am • 0 0 • view
Same
aug 6, 2025, 8:26 am • 1 0 • view
Total respect!
aug 6, 2025, 3:16 pm • 1 0 • view
I’ve often used the word pragmatic to describe myself, at least my voting choices. My guiding light has been who is going to do whatever they can to make sure children get fed.
aug 6, 2025, 11:18 am • 2 0 • view
Music to my ears. I think we are now more united than people realize. We just need the leadership!
aug 6, 2025, 5:10 am • 3 0 • view
There are people who think that the only way to win elections is to do nothing, thus upsetting nobody. They want to turn the Democratic Party into a conservative party. But it can’t compete with the Republican Party’s reputation for being conservative. So it’s progressive or nothing.
aug 6, 2025, 4:02 pm • 3 0 • view
This is the way.
aug 6, 2025, 9:17 pm • 0 0 • view
I too believed appealing to the middle was the way to win over votes to the left. Sometimes it worked, but not anymore. We can’t expect a different result from the same tired playbook. The reason people are threatened by the likes of AOC and Mamdani are exactly why we need them.
aug 6, 2025, 5:47 pm • 1 0 • view
I've been saying that all along. Dems always think they can persuade the maga voters to see things their way. Ain't gonna happen. They need to persuade the one-third of people who never vote to get out and vote. That's the difference between winning and losing.
aug 6, 2025, 1:17 pm • 8 0 • view
I’ve shared a similar experience. At some point I realized perhaps I was the problem. Until we stop supporting the “middle” (which has moved very far right) we won’t make any progress. I now equate the middle with corporate owned Dems. I fight like hell in the primaries for progressive candidates.
aug 6, 2025, 11:32 pm • 0 0 • view
I think the issue is most progressives aren’t pragmatic. I’m the same way, I think basically everything they say is the way things should be. Problem is, to achieve those goals you have to do things like convince millions of Americans on very good health care plans to give those up. Hard to do.
aug 6, 2025, 4:40 am • 0 0 • view
And the second you bring that up you are an “asshole normie lib” or some shit. It’s like you don’t have to convince me everyone should have health care, you have to convince a subset of the population that drinks raw milk and thinks vax have Gates nanoparticles. And they accept no middle ground
aug 6, 2025, 4:43 am • 4 0 • view
Good points!
aug 6, 2025, 5:22 am • 2 0 • view
I live in a country w national health care and also have private insurance. National is great for the annual stuff, the big stuff like cancer, organ transplants. Private is faster, freedom of choice of drs., more services. Most drs. wrk public and private.
aug 6, 2025, 5:21 am • 2 0 • view
Yes!!
aug 8, 2025, 6:58 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm in a similar but not identical position. One thing I'm afraid we're up against is that the current crop of elected Democrats have been trained that the left will always abandon them when the going gets tough.
aug 6, 2025, 1:06 pm • 0 0 • view
We have to retrain them, and the left has to stick with it through more than just one election. I don't know how we get there without spending years out of power. We can't afford those years, and we've just started down this road.
aug 6, 2025, 1:07 pm • 1 0 • view
Yasss'sir!
aug 6, 2025, 4:17 am • 111 0 • view
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aug 6, 2025, 6:02 am • 25 0 • view
Ohhh, yes. 💯
aug 6, 2025, 6:06 am • 20 0 • view
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aug 8, 2025, 6:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Game theory should be employed in today's politics. Anyone against Trump and MAGA should support the candidate who has the best chance of beating MAGA, whether that person is the party favorite or not.
aug 6, 2025, 6:14 am • 1 0 • view
💙🇺🇸💪
aug 6, 2025, 3:57 pm • 1 0 • view
Voting for republicans (or not voting at all) is not the solution. It’s the problem.
aug 6, 2025, 12:03 pm • 8 0 • view
Well said.
aug 6, 2025, 9:58 am • 2 0 • view
You are speaking for me.
aug 6, 2025, 1:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Yesssssss ‼️ agree with you 💯
aug 6, 2025, 4:42 am • 2 0 • view
Well said. Thank you. Same here.
aug 6, 2025, 9:10 am • 2 0 • view
I like your term "Pragmatic Progressive".
aug 6, 2025, 6:44 pm • 0 0 • view
What you shared in your string of comments is spot on. I'm 70 & ready for dramatic change, as I feel Progressive policies are the next step in Dem-political policy evolution The old guard need embrace change like some elder voters have or they need to pass the baton Let the younger remake the US
aug 6, 2025, 2:19 pm • 5 0 • view
I am 64 and feel the same. The same old same old we have been experiencing is obviously not working, so time for some kick-ass attitudes - as he says, that speak to the gut. Plus, it is natural (and vital) to have younger people take the reins with new perspectives and energy.
aug 6, 2025, 2:24 pm • 6 0 • view
Agree
aug 6, 2025, 4:28 am • 0 0 • view
aug 6, 2025, 11:10 am • 2 0 • view
Mamdani represents a turning point in our elections. Bernie was/is it with progressive's ideology. He, like I @70 & others, recognize Progressive is the next phase of democracy. The younger generations should be allowed to elect those they believe can do best for them. Time to change the guard.
aug 6, 2025, 2:07 pm • 3 1 • view
Yep. Hilary Clinton almost lost my vote when she was in Philly and addressed the crowd of whites (like 97%) and said “we know who the hardworking Americans are”. She was trying to appeal to them from a white working class perspective but it edged too close to me to racist pandering/stereotypes.
aug 6, 2025, 11:38 am • 1 0 • view
I’m voting for whoever the Ds put up. I’m not fussy. The Republican/ MAGA have all caved to Trump/Vance and the billionaires. You are a vanity voter if you split any kind of hairs at this point- even the moderate Ds are getting my active support. Every port in a storm folks!👊✊🇺🇸
aug 6, 2025, 11:37 am • 0 0 • view
Or we could look at this as an opportunity to solve some of the problems that have been plaguing the Dems for years. At what point do we stop "electing whatever Dem is running" -- playing defense -- and elect the people who will actually vote in the policies that serve US.
aug 6, 2025, 1:30 pm • 3 0 • view
I would argue that moderate Dem policies, particularly under delivering on the economic policies and not addressing billionaires is how we ended up here Vote for lesser evils in the general, but primaries are very important right now to get the party away from being Republicans from 20 years ago.
aug 6, 2025, 1:03 pm • 1 0 • view
If we don't address how they lost 2/3 times to the orange fascist, or how the Dems are still currently polling as less popular than Republicans, then I fear we're doomed to just repeat things. We'll ratchet further to the right evermore as the Democrats still refuse to deal with their problems.
aug 6, 2025, 1:07 pm • 0 0 • view
I agree with this!
aug 6, 2025, 1:06 pm • 0 0 • view
Hide the veggies, not serve candy. We need more proud smart fast progressives!
aug 6, 2025, 5:33 am • 0 0 • view
"That's not strategy. That's betrayal." Two good full-stops, man.
aug 7, 2025, 5:52 am • 1 0 • view
I reached out to Dems when I discovered Texas was 50th in special education. Realizing that some of our Dems do not give a 💩 was a giant smack of reality. Our politicians need to represent us, they need to work for us, and they need to give a 💩. Betsey Waters said it best, but she usually does.
aug 6, 2025, 8:17 am • 3 0 • view
💯 !
aug 6, 2025, 4:14 am • 2 1 • view
🎯 I'm with you on this
aug 6, 2025, 10:54 am • 0 0 • view
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
aug 6, 2025, 9:34 pm • 1 0 • view
1000% THIS
aug 6, 2025, 4:16 pm • 1 0 • view
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aug 6, 2025, 11:02 pm • 0 0 • view
YES!
aug 6, 2025, 4:39 pm • 1 0 • view
Definitely! It's a death blow, not to an individual, but the all of USA, and entire world.
aug 6, 2025, 4:13 am • 2 1 • view
This right here.
aug 6, 2025, 8:51 am • 1 0 • view
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aug 8, 2025, 6:05 pm • 0 0 • view
I like that term. It's realistic.
aug 6, 2025, 7:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Pragmatic! Yes!
aug 20, 2025, 8:57 pm • 0 0 • view
This is Nebraska.
aug 6, 2025, 3:31 pm • 1 0 • view
No thinking person--as opposed perhaps to mesmerized cult members...if even them--will EVER agree 100% with everything their sociopolitical "in-group" believes, says or does. Anyone searching for a perfect political home is engaged in a snipe hunt and is headed for grief and disillusionment.
aug 6, 2025, 5:56 pm • 1 0 • view
Me 2. I’m a pragmatic liberal/progressive. Honestly, to support civil rights & its history you have 2b. However, I won’t ever not vote just because a democratic candidate is singing the song out of tune from my POV. Why? Bcuz Rs narrow focus excludes (me) & threatens democracy. Ds not so much.
aug 6, 2025, 11:34 am • 6 0 • view
I identify myself in your comments.
aug 6, 2025, 12:04 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes! 💯
aug 6, 2025, 4:12 am • 2 0 • view
I like the sound of that. A "pragmatic progressive" is much better. I'm not in the "defund police" camp, but I'm not in the unlimited funding camp either.
aug 6, 2025, 9:18 pm • 2 0 • view
Christopher I am willing to fight on your side everyday.
aug 6, 2025, 4:26 am • 3 0 • view
I wish more people would be pragmatic.
aug 6, 2025, 1:25 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes!!!!
aug 11, 2025, 11:45 am • 0 0 • view
As a former conservative and 35 year Republican, the most important thing I’ve learned is: The opposite of progressive isn’t conservative - it’s regressive. I don’t want to go back to racism, sexism, homophobia, music bans, rampant pollution, the Hayes code, etc so now I’m a progressive!
aug 8, 2025, 3:29 am • 6 0 • view