Speaking as a rural Democrat, the strategists’ push to the move Dems to the center is ill-advised. No one needs Republican lite when there’s a Republican already on the ballot.
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Yes. And everyone vote. End voter apathy. Wonderful elections this year and in my rural Ohio county, we’ll be lucky to have 50% turnout.
mar 9, 2025, 3:03 am • 1 0 • view
Don't be diet Pepsi, be dr pepper, or LaCroix, or something.
mar 9, 2025, 2:46 am • 0 0 • view
Dems have been shifting right to find middle ground for too long. Time for the right to move center.
mar 9, 2025, 12:06 am • 0 0 • view
It will be rejected by this household -that party has already fucked women’s rights away and then fund raises on it- fuck them they need to pull their heads out their ass -I won’t fight for people who won’t fight for women
mar 8, 2025, 6:01 pm • 0 0 • view
Progressive policies are popular
mar 8, 2025, 6:28 pm • 0 0 • view
Don’t they get this is exactly how Harris lost? Being too center? They are so dumb.
mar 9, 2025, 3:09 pm • 0 0 • view
This scared a bunch of people from Kamala
mar 8, 2025, 8:08 pm • 0 0 • view
EXACTLY! I think Bernie and Jasmine's messages are far more relatable!
mar 9, 2025, 12:21 am • 0 0 • view
Agreed!
mar 9, 2025, 1:26 am • 1 0 • view
This is tricky. Examples of far-left national figures are Kamala Harris, Walter Mondale, Michael Dukakis, Bernie Sanders, AOC and Gavin Newsom. Examples of centrists are Bill Clinton, Joe Biden, Andy Beshear, Gretchen Whitmer and Josh Shapiro. Republicans would LOVE to run against coastal elites.
mar 8, 2025, 6:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Thank YOU. cc @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
mar 9, 2025, 2:58 am • 1 0 • view
That was Kunce’s strategy. Would have done better if he’d run as a Republican against Hawley.
mar 9, 2025, 2:56 am • 0 0 • view
The Constitutional Party. No one needs a renewal of Reagan GOP.
mar 9, 2025, 2:46 am • 0 0 • view
Most actual Democrats stopped listening to the people like James Carville long ago which is why he switched fields to become a paid media pundit.
mar 8, 2025, 5:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Noam Chomsky is right: there’s a schism within the Democratic Party. On one end are establishment democrats who look a lot like neoliberal republicans from the 1980s. On the other you have progressives who actually want to see positive momentum from the status quo. The two cannot exist at once.
mar 8, 2025, 9:45 pm • 1 0 • view
I heard you on State of the States on Sirius XM earlier today. Thank you for letting a wide audience know that rural folks are mostly regular people.
mar 8, 2025, 8:28 pm • 0 0 • view
I don't understand how they don't understand this. Unless..they are just Republican Lite candidates. We need a few new firebrands and stop with the corporate race to the center-right garbage what's going on now with too many of them
mar 8, 2025, 5:42 pm • 0 0 • view
#Democrat -ic party needs to ditch the billionaires And embrace the Working and Middle Class. Go back to its FDR roots open.substack.com/pub/biggover...
mar 8, 2025, 5:40 pm • 13 1 • view
I wish we could. If Citizens united is ever overturned, then it’s possible, but not until then. It’s the reality of our country at the moment.
mar 8, 2025, 8:24 pm • 3 0 • view
Retire and shelve everyone in this photo.
mar 8, 2025, 6:55 pm • 1 0 • view
Disagree on this one. We don't need two extreme parties. Plus, a moderate Dem is not a "Republican lite". Maybe two extreme parties and a middle one. Moderates were a big group before the right took over the GOP. A lot of them are now Independents.
mar 9, 2025, 1:16 am • 0 0 • view
It seems to me that progressive Democrats already are the center. The problem is that the Overton Window has moved so far right now that party perception is bonkers. Polls say that vast majorities of Americans want commonsense gun safety, paths to citizenship, abortion rights, education, etc.
mar 9, 2025, 2:33 am • 333 52 • view
Yes! When policy proposals from the Dem platform are presented without a party label, voters overwhelmingly support them
mar 9, 2025, 2:36 am • 16 1 • view
This.
mar 9, 2025, 2:39 am • 11 0 • view
Hi Heather, Thank you so much for all your time that you give! I read your letters daily and have since they started. From down the road in Warren, Lisbeth
mar 9, 2025, 2:46 am • 4 0 • view
I fully do not think most people understand rural voters. In rural eastern Oregon they would have voted for Bernie over Trump.
mar 9, 2025, 2:40 am • 4 0 • view
It's about fighting the caricature that right wing media creates. Dems already have a more popular platform - but much of America doesn't know it.
mar 9, 2025, 2:37 am • 81 11 • view
Exactly.
mar 9, 2025, 2:39 am • 60 1 • view
Do you think it's strange NO ONE is talking about taking this attack on Social Security to court?
mar 9, 2025, 2:41 am • 4 0 • view
Then maybe the Dems ought to GET OUT THERE and talk to people. Those weekly town halls are a pretty darn good idea.
mar 9, 2025, 3:09 am • 1 0 • view
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mar 9, 2025, 5:59 am • 0 0 • view
We need to create an army of influencers to take over social places. We need whatever a progressive version of a tradwife is. Baking bread & promoting vaccines. Or tech bros chasing meme stocks & talking about health care equity. Meet the voters where they are & in their own language.
mar 9, 2025, 5:16 am • 3 0 • view
Seems to me the strategy should just be defense right now. Offense is off the table until they get a majority.
mar 9, 2025, 3:04 am • 0 0 • view
I wish that various family members would understand that I'm actually very centrist. I'm painted as one of the evil liberal left.
mar 12, 2025, 5:51 am • 0 0 • view
@emilyinyourphone.bsky.social wrote a fantastic substack on the Overton window recently. I think this is absolutely true.
mar 9, 2025, 2:44 am • 0 0 • view
Hi Heather! I listen to you daily!
mar 9, 2025, 2:36 am • 2 0 • view
Hi Jonda!
mar 9, 2025, 2:39 am • 1 0 • view
I think you are awesome btw!!!! I have learned so much from you! 💕💕💕
mar 9, 2025, 2:44 am • 1 0 • view
The Overton Window, the political puck of a hockey game. It exemplifies the power of psyops technology, that has long been underestimated.
mar 9, 2025, 2:48 am • 1 0 • view
There is a great YouTube channel by Will Westmoreland - The Back Forty — wonderful perspectives on rural America and politics. He should be leading Dem strategy in rural areas youtu.be/0qT2xy_iYfE?...
mar 9, 2025, 3:08 am • 0 0 • view
For people like me who had to google Overton window: conceptually.org/concepts/ove...
mar 9, 2025, 4:03 pm • 0 0 • view
When Trump leads your party the Overton window is in constant warp. That too is by design. Anything else seems plausibly acceptable after he proposes something. There is no normal.
mar 9, 2025, 2:44 am • 3 0 • view
Most Progressive Democrats would be a center right party in much of the developed world. Other nations have universal healthcare, guaranteed paid maternity/parental leave, better salaries, more vacation, good public transportation, & less institutionalized misogyny. We need to move left.
mar 9, 2025, 2:39 am • 6 0 • view
What the USA needs is a real democratic socialist party and proportional representation.
mar 9, 2025, 2:44 am • 2 0 • view
Move the window left
mar 9, 2025, 4:15 am • 1 0 • view
True. When I lived in Europe, I was considered to be center-right by local standards, whereas in the US everyone tells me that I'm too "extreme [left]", including my self-identified "progressive" friends.
mar 9, 2025, 2:44 am • 3 0 • view
Couldn't agree more, as someone who grew up in Boomer progressive Michigan. Have lived in various states since the 70's. Many in the GOP fled the Tea Party and the Dems moved right. When a Michigan Dem invokes Reagan, well...that says it all.
mar 9, 2025, 3:21 am • 0 0 • view
The Left and the Center need to come to terms with the terrifying reality that 46% of the electorate is unpersuadable. Because the Democrats will not win every election, what reforms can be implemented to mitigate the damage in the future? Limit, reform and remove power from the Presidency?
mar 9, 2025, 2:58 am • 1 0 • view
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mar 9, 2025, 3:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Then they should run on that, not all sorts of identity issues which are basically reaganomic individualism wrapped up as social consciousness: it offers nothing to people who just want a community that lets them buy a home and care for their loved ones.
mar 9, 2025, 3:42 am • 2 0 • view
Tell us ONE piece of legislation that works ever came from the Progressives. ONE. All of it came from liberal-left Dems not them. Talk is cheap. Put solid legislation where your mouth is, we will be pleased. Otherwise, forget it. It's just blather.
mar 9, 2025, 3:01 am • 4 1 • view
I'm going to need more explanation of that "etc." Because my conservative family members would say pretty conservative things -after that short list. They hate foreign aid, they believe in drill baby drill, and they would have homeless people locked up. I'm not so sure they are secret Bernie voters.
mar 9, 2025, 2:53 am • 0 0 • view
It's the donor$ and con$ultant$
mar 9, 2025, 3:03 am • 0 0 • view
I mostly agree but we do need to avoid the far left just like I wish Republicans would avoid the far right.
mar 8, 2025, 11:26 pm • 0 0 • view
As a rural person, THIS. a million times this
mar 9, 2025, 4:07 am • 0 0 • view
This was always the problem in TN: dems groveling, asking forgiveness for speaking, trying to be center right when nobody asked for that. So weak and pathetic, like waving a little sign at 47.
mar 8, 2025, 10:58 pm • 0 0 • view
They’ve GOT to stop letting republicans dictate every conversation. Risk pushback from Dems! They should be saying “I’m not discussing trans rights while Ukrainians are holding back fascism for the entire world.” Refuse to be dragged into debates that derail everything.
mar 8, 2025, 5:49 pm • 0 0 • view
It isn't tough, and Democrats won't say it. Wages suck. The wealthy elite have the monopoly they have wanted. Control of commerce, science, industry, and higher education. They alone will extract the rewards and benefits of intellectual innovation that will made affordable to only the rich.
mar 9, 2025, 12:08 pm • 2 0 • view
Republicans in OR are in disbelief and pissed that federal workers are not allowed to speak to the public. I think everyone should encourage the farmers, ranchers and all republicans to try to talk and get answers from their local NRCS, ARS, USFS, USDA staff (who are left).
mar 9, 2025, 2:51 am • 0 0 • view
It’s a good way to drive home the point that those federal extension staff are no longer going to be helping you. & get them2 question the Trump admin & they all hate Musk. City boysignorance on rural communities (taking the forest, wasting precious water during the winter). Connects 2Trump too.
mar 9, 2025, 2:51 am • 0 0 • view
So many people do not understand rural voters. Glad that you speak up and out for rural democrats.
mar 9, 2025, 2:41 am • 3 0 • view
You’ll never solve any issue by trying to trick voters by running as an independent and you’ll never move Republican voters by giving them the same talking points expecting and them to mark a ballot for a Dem. It has never worked in my lifetime.
mar 8, 2025, 5:38 pm • 372 34 • view
Yes! It was so exciting when Harris picked Walz, and then so depressing when she dumped him for Cheney.
mar 9, 2025, 3:00 am • 1 0 • view
Republicans are allergic to the letter “D.” Why don’t Democrats ever realize that?
mar 8, 2025, 6:16 pm • 2 0 • view
I hate that part, but it’s not false. I literally saw a bumper sticker on a truck at my kids middle school that said “Dads against Daughters Dating Democrats.”
mar 8, 2025, 8:22 pm • 0 0 • view
That guy was taking 4 D’s in a row? Wow!
mar 8, 2025, 8:23 pm • 1 0 • view
I think it’s a play on MADD, actually.
mar 8, 2025, 8:26 pm • 1 0 • view
If Democrats would have condemned big money in politics, fight corporate welfare, and unrig a market that’s been rigged in favor of big corporations and the rich, Trump’s absurd bogeymen (the deep state, immigrants, socialists, trans people, diversity-equity-inclusion) wouldn’t have stood a chance.
mar 9, 2025, 11:51 am • 5 3 • view
Read Harry Truman. He made this very point ~75 years ago.
mar 8, 2025, 6:05 pm • 2 0 • view
But they keep trying it!!
mar 9, 2025, 4:01 am • 2 0 • view
Clinton pulled it off but those were different times, the right is radicalized now after decades of Fox News.
mar 8, 2025, 5:41 pm • 3 0 • view
It definitely was a different time. I am originally from Arkansas and my Trump voting mom loved Clinton and voted for him twice.
mar 8, 2025, 5:44 pm • 11 0 • view
Clinton was Corp Center DEM compared to Ralph Nader or Bernie!
mar 8, 2025, 9:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Two organizations helping people run: RunforSomething and MovementVoter Project.
mar 8, 2025, 6:31 pm • 3 1 • view
Are those orgs on BlueSky?
mar 15, 2025, 2:37 am • 0 0 • view
Instead, be the party that actually takes care of people to the very best of its abilities, that is driven by merit and equity, to reduce social inequality. What people really need…
mar 9, 2025, 6:30 am • 1 0 • view
Democrats have spent my entire life fighting for some tiny sliver in the middle. When there’s an entire army ready to be mobilized to the left of center, that’s been ignored and called radical our entire lives, that’s tired of seeing this pandering to a tiny right center sliver.
mar 8, 2025, 5:43 pm • 84 2 • view
Yeah Kamala tried appealing to the center with Never Trumpers, you see how that worked out. Not enough Republicans would pull the Democratic lever. They're party over country.
mar 8, 2025, 6:54 pm • 26 0 • view
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mar 8, 2025, 5:51 pm • 3 0 • view
There’s not a tiny sliver in the middle. If there were, no one would be worried about it. No one is ignoring the left. We had a progressive president who got a lot of great shit done who the progressive left often refused to support.
mar 8, 2025, 5:51 pm • 1 0 • view
They lost the tiny sliver in the middle which is why they lost every single freaking swing state by that small sliver instead of trying to engage new voters on the left like the right did on their side.
mar 8, 2025, 10:18 pm • 3 0 • view
Are you talking about the “progressive president” that continued to fund a genocide? They’re worried about that tiny sliver in the middle because they can’t/won’t talk about what a huge swath would vote for…universal health care, tax the rich, cut military spending by 30%, I could go on and on.
mar 8, 2025, 10:17 pm • 5 0 • view
You obviously don’t understand why Kamala lost and we’re in this situation. It’s 100% because they abandoned the left and tried to court disillusioned conservatives. She campaigned with LIZ FUCKING CHENEY! She refused to separate from Joe. They moved right and left progressive voters behind.
mar 9, 2025, 3:33 am • 3 0 • view
But as an outsider I can’t understand the idea that someone with leftist Democratic ideals might a. Not vote or b. Vote for trump. The left fighting itself gives the right victory. Simple.
mar 9, 2025, 6:40 am • 1 0 • view
Exactly. There is no legit reason to justify it. Only lame excuses.
mar 9, 2025, 1:47 pm • 1 0 • view
Stop being an idiot. Why the fuck does it make you leftists mad that Liz Cheney endorsed her ??? Cheney didn’t affect one POLICY. LC and her father apparently have more honor than you do bc they put country over party/politics. fuck off
mar 9, 2025, 1:44 pm • 0 0 • view
youtu.be/m8nevwr0vyQ?...
mar 9, 2025, 6:44 am • 0 0 • view
That is just the truth, I'm with you 100 percent, fascists will have a price to pay for this BS, we the people will not forget. Viva La Merica
mar 11, 2025, 8:18 pm • 0 0 • view
They don’t show up. That sliver of middle shows up and elects my rural democrat. Might be a reason Jess loses and mine wins.
mar 8, 2025, 8:51 pm • 4 0 • view
Jess' post misses that "the center" is kind of a mythological thing & it's really muddied when Bernie & Trump have said similar things about tariffs, & Democrats from districts where jobs depend on fracking buck the party.
mar 9, 2025, 3:38 am • 2 0 • view
There's a "we support individual rights" message all Democrats need to lean in on in the face of bad faith repub attacks like trans athletes. The basis of the attack- "boys will declare they're trans to win against girls" is just pure bullshit.
mar 9, 2025, 3:38 am • 5 2 • view
‘I don’t care what you say anymore this is my life. GO AHEAD WITH YOUR OWN LIFE, LEAVE ME ALONE.’
mar 9, 2025, 6:34 am • 2 0 • view
I love that song
mar 9, 2025, 6:40 am • 2 0 • view
Let the leagues figure out what's fair. We don't need politicians making rules.
mar 9, 2025, 3:38 am • 3 0 • view
Democrats put too much faith in "stare decicis" and believed the lies of EVERY confirmation hearing! The fact a president appoints a conservative is a sign they're rigging the court.
mar 8, 2025, 6:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Bill Clinton.
mar 8, 2025, 5:51 pm • 0 0 • view
That was pre-Fox news. A quarter century of poison has rotten their minds.
mar 8, 2025, 6:17 pm • 6 0 • view
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social you're never gonna get a Republican to vote for you -- no matter how many trans kids you toss into their fire of hate
mar 8, 2025, 6:01 pm • 3 0 • view
The center is in no way republican lite. That's bonkers. Just look at project 2025, or the republican platform in 2020 to see how wrong that view is.
mar 9, 2025, 3:09 am • 1 0 • view
Dems will be demonized as radical “leftists” by the GOP regardless of where they really stand. Might as well embrace it as appealing to the center clearly hasn’t worked.
mar 8, 2025, 6:01 pm • 0 0 • view
Dems can't be perceived as centrists if they keep letting themselves be branded as woke.
mar 8, 2025, 7:32 pm • 0 0 • view
Consensus has moved left. Big donor "establishment" money hasn't. *uck them all.
mar 8, 2025, 9:08 pm • 0 0 • view
As a rural democrat I completely agree
mar 8, 2025, 7:35 pm • 0 0 • view
If you want to continue to lose then keep on going left. You already lost people like me. Who were middle left. If you want to go all the way left, you're going to get crushed
mar 8, 2025, 7:43 pm • 0 0 • view
No one needs a platform pushing for banning all semi autos and forcing pronouns in signature blocks either
mar 8, 2025, 9:28 pm • 0 0 • view
literally no one has done that wth are you even talking about
mar 9, 2025, 3:42 am • 0 0 • view
Ive literally had people suggest it to me. The world is bigger than ur bubble
mar 9, 2025, 4:03 am • 0 0 • view
omg someone "suggested" it? how dare! did they *suggest* that either a full firearm ban and mandatory email signature pronouns should be a part of the democratic party platform? did they make it happen? stop being offended about shit that hasn't happened
mar 9, 2025, 4:21 am • 0 0 • view
Omg you are one of those idiots. The first was a platform item for a GA gubernatorial candidate. She lost you feckless azzhat. Stop being obtuse and get a clue
mar 9, 2025, 11:46 am • 1 0 • view
sure buddy. I'm an asshat for not following your strange angry ranting. who was this candidate? what was her actual platform? and if she lost, doesn't that mean that no one is forcing anything on anyone? and also, who tried to force you to include your pronouns in your email?
mar 9, 2025, 2:50 pm • 0 0 • view
You’re an azzhat bc you have no idea what you’re talking about. I am not your Negro. Go do your own research on the last candidate to run for gov in GA who lost. As far as pronouns, It is “your” type that keep the decent side losing. Bravo clown
mar 9, 2025, 2:55 pm • 0 0 • view
so...no, then? no examples? no actual explanation of your wrong ass claims? you're very very angry about things that aren't happening hope that gets better for you
mar 9, 2025, 3:01 pm • 0 0 • view
I am not your Negro. Thanks for playing tho 🤡
mar 9, 2025, 3:02 pm • 0 0 • view
aight unc "they're coming for all the handguns and forcing us to be trans in our email" is just not a reasonable take and I think you know it you been programmed to hate the "woke" or whatever when the actual enemy wants us back in chains and is doing fine work getting us there
mar 9, 2025, 4:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Great point. We missed on Bernie, when will we learn.
mar 8, 2025, 5:56 pm • 2 0 • view
Thank you. Do you think democrats should just get to common sense real talk with voters?
mar 9, 2025, 1:00 am • 0 0 • view
Right! That’s never worked. Obama tried to appease Republicans and Republicans still blocked everything he tried to do.
mar 8, 2025, 5:44 pm • 0 0 • view
no one, except the donors
mar 8, 2025, 6:41 pm • 1 0 • view
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mar 8, 2025, 7:25 pm • 0 0 • view
Go old school. Flyers. They are tactile Easy to read People tend to write things on them They get spoken about Not controlled by anyone
mar 9, 2025, 11:46 am • 0 0 • view
Yes! People love to forget the progressive policies are actually… Popular!
mar 8, 2025, 5:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Hey @slotkin.senate.gov , you listening? would love to hear you debate your dumb-as-fuck centrist-gop-lite theory?
mar 8, 2025, 6:25 pm • 0 0 • view
Gavin newsom needs to retire from politics and anyone like him. We need to push Hakeem Jeffries out of leadership but AIPAC has given him 800K so they won’t let him go easily.
mar 8, 2025, 5:40 pm • 3 0 • view
But you can keep the dialogue the same just the approach is completely different. Jobs, good economy, Safe Streets. But this is achieved in a completely different way through positive Community Building, infrastructure and Social Services
mar 9, 2025, 12:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Insanity - doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
mar 8, 2025, 6:32 pm • 0 0 • view
This is just not true, in the same way that 2+2 =3 is not true or at least, it is not true for the 2026 midterms Control of the US house hinges on about 30 races; all the rest are more or less already decided Many of these 30 races are in purple/reddish districts
mar 9, 2025, 2:07 pm • 0 0 • view
Louder for the people in the back 👏
mar 8, 2025, 6:11 pm • 1 0 • view
But they got blinded by Obama’s election, so were SURE Hillary would seal the Centrist deal…Democratic “strategists” think Bernie is a “radical leftist”, when in reality, he SHOULD be America’s “centrist” political position. 🫤 Corporate money drives the Democratic Party.
mar 8, 2025, 5:49 pm • 3 0 • view
This is so true! Thank you for speaking up!
mar 9, 2025, 3:01 am • 0 0 • view
Amen.
mar 9, 2025, 12:58 am • 0 0 • view
Check out the latest video from Steve Shives, you two are on the same page.
mar 9, 2025, 1:20 am • 0 0 • view
They just keep doing the same thing on repeat. At this point they must know it's crap, right? I swear, they're just going through the motions pretending to be opposition
mar 8, 2025, 5:41 pm • 1 0 • view
And what is wrong with being progressive any how?
mar 8, 2025, 9:51 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm beginning to think the only substantial plank the Democrats have is decorum. It's beginning to look like the one thing the Democratic and Republican Federal caucuses have absolutely in common is the crushing of original thinking, strategies, and and initiatives, otherwise known as "dissent".
mar 8, 2025, 6:54 pm • 0 0 • view
1. Any strategist claiming that 2024 results were about ideological positioning of Harris campaign is ignoring reality of why we lost in 2024 (see below). 2. That said, I don't think Ds should treat center as "Republican lite." GOP today farther from center than core of Democratic party.
mar 8, 2025, 5:49 pm • 3 0 • view
We need true leftist candidates like Bernie, not these Republicans in blue clothing.
mar 8, 2025, 6:00 pm • 5 0 • view
It’s almost like Dems would rather see us descend into fascism than push for progressive policies.
mar 8, 2025, 6:56 pm • 0 0 • view
I spent the afternoon at a woman's march in DFW, one of the speakers was 17 and so damn passionate. If the Dems keep shifting to the center, they will lose (more) of the youth vote to apathy and disillusionment, and they'll deserve it imo.
mar 9, 2025, 12:22 am • 2 0 • view
This is why I left the Dem Party in 1992. They no longer represented me. And no, I didn't become a Republican lol The party needs to move left or Democrats will keep losing. Party leadership still acting like W is in power & that's the problem.
mar 8, 2025, 6:31 pm • 4 0 • view
conceptually.org/concepts/ove...
mar 9, 2025, 4:03 pm • 0 0 • view
This is why I'm done with the Democratic party.
mar 9, 2025, 7:48 pm • 0 0 • view
Hear, hear.
mar 9, 2025, 6:00 pm • 0 0 • view
What we need is more Bernie’s!
mar 8, 2025, 5:37 pm • 17 0 • view
FWIW, he’s officially independent, but caucuses with the Ds.
mar 8, 2025, 8:23 pm • 2 0 • view
Not
mar 8, 2025, 9:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Amen, Jess.
mar 9, 2025, 2:38 am • 1 0 • view
I keep going back to the fact that in 2016 when Trump-leaning voters were asked who their 2nd choice was a plurality responded: Bernie Sanders.
mar 8, 2025, 7:52 pm • 2 0 • view
Claire learned that, but then she got a TV gig so she's fine with the outcome.
mar 8, 2025, 5:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Exactly!!!
mar 8, 2025, 6:20 pm • 0 0 • view
They've driven the line so far right that the center is conservative Republican. No thank you
mar 8, 2025, 6:26 pm • 2 0 • view
I think in Red states, Dems should dissolve the party and primary as Republicans. Most republican voters don't really understand policy differences, and will only vote for the (R) in the general.
mar 8, 2025, 7:50 pm • 2 0 • view
Not a terrible idea.
mar 8, 2025, 8:54 pm • 1 0 • view
A new party will be made if that stupidity continues. This is a version of the "First they came for" poem. The rest of us know that if the Democrats won't stand for the weakest, least protected, they won't protect anyone else. The Repubs in the past have made a point of defending a few groups.
mar 8, 2025, 5:41 pm • 1 0 • view
No repub sentiments for me. Enough already
mar 14, 2025, 1:04 pm • 1 0 • view
This. "But pronouns" worked with stupid, bored people that were living in the best economy in a generation. Hopefully when people see the damage that unethical and corrupt people can do to their lives enough of them will see invented social division issues for what they are.
mar 9, 2025, 2:25 pm • 0 0 • view
THANK YOU.
mar 8, 2025, 9:50 pm • 0 0 • view
Also Democratic policies have always been more popular, pretty much across the board, so our stances on issues is not the problem.
mar 8, 2025, 6:24 pm • 0 0 • view
The stupid virus keeps spreading. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoRe...
mar 8, 2025, 5:58 pm • 0 0 • view
Given the choice between a Republican and a Republican, voters will always choose the Republican.
mar 9, 2025, 7:28 am • 0 0 • view
Agreed. If you're going to run as a Democrat, you should sound like a Democrat.
mar 8, 2025, 7:10 pm • 1 0 • view
Having that trouble in Maine right now, too.
mar 9, 2025, 3:03 am • 0 0 • view
The establishment Dems are already right of centre... It's those fucks that are doing fuck all about the fascist takeover
mar 8, 2025, 6:10 pm • 0 0 • view
And their idea of center is Charlie Kirk. Wtf?
mar 8, 2025, 6:08 pm • 1 0 • view
We are not far enough to the left. That’s the problem
mar 9, 2025, 2:46 am • 0 0 • view
Right and Left? No. What we have are predators and slightly more accommodating predators...
mar 9, 2025, 7:00 am • 2 1 • view
We need to go FARTHER left. Anything less will result in variations of the same.
mar 8, 2025, 5:46 pm • 1 1 • view
The Dems made a fatal mistake when they chicken-shitted and chose Hilary over Bernie.
mar 8, 2025, 5:46 pm • 0 0 • view
Submission will destroy our beloved country. The democrats in congress who applauded trump’s speech are delusional and need to be replaced.
mar 9, 2025, 3:12 pm • 0 0 • view
Fiscally responsible? That appeals to a huge chunk of voters on either side. I think the promise of re-establishing our social safety net in a sustainable manner and responsible regulatory reforms are sellable. YMMV
mar 8, 2025, 5:44 pm • 1 0 • view
Normally I would completely agree. But if the Dems don't claim the center...someone else, a viable third Party candidate might. These days, I'm not sure what Republican lite would look like.
mar 8, 2025, 5:44 pm • 0 0 • view
We've had some good progressive candidates, they didn't make it through the primaries, and then graves swatted the whoever did get through
mar 8, 2025, 7:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Kitchen table issues and nothing else. Cost of living, jobs, access to affordable healthcare, and quality of education. Sounds like center-focused issues to me.
mar 9, 2025, 12:25 am • 0 0 • view
Agreed. We need to make the case for an agenda that is true to our ideals.
mar 9, 2025, 1:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Dems have already moved farther to the right than I’m comfortably with.
mar 9, 2025, 5:09 am • 8 0 • view
When compared to the fascist right, Bernie Sanders and AOC could be considered centrists.
mar 8, 2025, 5:46 pm • 3 0 • view
Agree.
mar 8, 2025, 6:23 pm • 0 0 • view
We’re mirroring Juice Media’s branding of Shit and Shit-Lite parties
mar 8, 2025, 6:17 pm • 0 0 • view
@thejuicemedia.bsky.social
mar 8, 2025, 6:18 pm • 0 0 • view
We also don't want them to tell us what's wrong with Trump. We already know. What I want to hear is how we're going to get to things like Medicare for all, no tax on social security, affordable housing, and better public schools. Don't be anti-Trump be pro Americans.
mar 8, 2025, 9:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Jon Tester is an example of that.
mar 9, 2025, 6:47 am • 1 0 • view
Healthcare 4 all; living wage; roof over head; access to healthy food; live freely without micromanagement by the gov
mar 9, 2025, 3:03 am • 1 0 • view
Thank you
mar 8, 2025, 9:23 pm • 1 0 • view
Yeah because that has really worked so well in the past and look where it has gotten all of rural America. And what is Republican lite? That "party" is so whacked out reich-wing right now that Republican lite would probably be right of Mussolini. They are fascists now, not Republicans.
mar 8, 2025, 5:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Did you see the five page plan they made for it? They were talking down to rural people SO much. It was disgusting.
mar 9, 2025, 6:03 am • 1 0 • view
Winning elections is overrated. They're doing a fine job of being overwhelmed by a GOP congress and president.
mar 9, 2025, 8:27 am • 0 0 • view
DAMN RIGHT! Stop listening to OLIGARCHS, you will LOSE your SEAT
mar 9, 2025, 6:11 am • 0 0 • view
They’re definitely going to keep on losing and become irrelevant if they continue down this path.
mar 9, 2025, 3:24 am • 0 0 • view
THANK YOU!! If the “third way” and AIPAC are so pressed for moderate representation, just run as “liberal gop” and see where that gets you…
mar 8, 2025, 10:58 pm • 0 0 • view
The strategists always push that way, we need more of a combination of the Roosevelts approach, Teddy and FDR.
mar 8, 2025, 10:33 pm • 1 0 • view
I just don’t think the democratic voters are as progressive as a lot of people like to think. It would help if the Ds would come up with policies that are easily articulated and understood, including how they’ll pay for them. Only raising taxes is not a winning argument.
mar 8, 2025, 5:47 pm • 2 0 • view
And not just Dem voters but Independents who make up the largest part of the electorate.
mar 8, 2025, 5:52 pm • 0 0 • view
You’re right. I’m actually and Independent who has recently voted only D because the Rs are toxic. I’ve gotten used to people saying that makes me a D!
mar 8, 2025, 5:55 pm • 1 0 • view
They need to look at some existing programs and find ways to show some cuts or restructuring to make things cost effective. I think Harris lost because she couldn’t articulate how she’d get the Rs to vote for raising taxes on the oligarchs.
mar 8, 2025, 5:47 pm • 1 0 • view
100%. Screw the Overton window - yank that sucker back where it should be.
mar 8, 2025, 6:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Thank you for saying it!!
mar 9, 2025, 3:57 am • 0 0 • view
they need to focus on policy & explain what their positions are. During the 2024 race Harris came out with a new rural plan. There were five lines about it on a post. I went to the Facebook page for the campaign. Zero info there. Self inflicted wound.
mar 8, 2025, 5:50 pm • 0 0 • view
People forget that the first presidential candidate to begin redefining the Democrats toward the left, in 1896, the youngest major party nominee in US history, was 36YO Nebraskan William Jennings Bryan, "The Boy Orator Of the Platte." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_o...
mar 9, 2025, 2:59 am • 0 0 • view
In the global sense of democracy, the US has never operated anywhere near the centre as we in Canada, and others, are much more central as we all agreed on Healthcare as a right.. without it, even your most progressives look like centre Right here
mar 8, 2025, 6:09 pm • 0 0 • view
Exactly, thank you. People who want Right Wing positions will vote right wing. This entire trying to chase the voter instead of provising an viable and convincing alternative is doomed from the beginning, a declaration of moral bancruptcy.
mar 9, 2025, 2:43 am • 2 0 • view
The propblem here is how the DNC is a loose coalition without a core. In the absence of a leader, they default to running around chasing the voter, without ever catching them.
mar 9, 2025, 2:45 am • 2 0 • view
the DNC is the Clinton's baby and their goal is to disrupt leftists.
mar 9, 2025, 6:53 am • 0 0 • view
That strategy killed the democratic party in Oklahoma.
mar 9, 2025, 2:37 am • 1 0 • view
Moving to the center got us into this mess. Democrats moved away from supporting the working class and made a friendly environment for the ultra-rich. youtu.be/EQzG_TrhyrY?...
mar 8, 2025, 6:01 pm • 5 1 • view
I live in rural America as well. Common sense needs to be applied. That means listening to all concerns and building a bigger tent. There is room for both progressive and conservative Dems, but not stupid one-size-fits-all policy.
mar 8, 2025, 5:45 pm • 1 0 • view
Speaking as a big city Democrat… same. Ineffective and low energy. We need progressive energy and innovative ideas.
mar 8, 2025, 7:31 pm • 3 0 • view
Yes!
mar 9, 2025, 3:09 pm • 1 0 • view
THANK YOU
mar 8, 2025, 10:01 pm • 0 0 • view
Any Democrat thinking they need to be less "radical" is showing us who they really are. We need Democrats to step up. They are not radical, they're wussies!
mar 8, 2025, 7:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Because in MO we have no Republican lite left. They are all batshit crazy right
mar 8, 2025, 6:09 pm • 1 0 • view
100% - As a mother of two Missouri Trans young adults, Republican lite is dangerous to my children’s life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. None of us are free until we are ALL FREE.
mar 8, 2025, 7:20 pm • 1 0 • view
This gets us into one of those things
mar 9, 2025, 1:31 am • 0 0 • view
Here is what I want: if you run as a member of a political party and win, you must stay as a member of that party. If you want to switch you must wait until your term is up, then run under the new party
mar 8, 2025, 10:18 pm • 0 0 • view
I want much more, but that can be done
mar 8, 2025, 10:19 pm • 0 0 • view
We have to stop labeling rational centrist policies Republican lite. Wanting economic growth, for example, with a rational level of oversight, protections for workers, and a robust government to ensure these things is far different from the robber baron dreams of the Right.
mar 8, 2025, 7:15 pm • 2 0 • view
Yes, but those are the things that get labeled as leftist by people who don’t know a thing about actual leftists.
mar 8, 2025, 10:45 pm • 0 0 • view
I wish it was that simple
mar 9, 2025, 3:10 am • 0 0 • view
I know it’s more complicated, but I was thinking in general terms.
mar 9, 2025, 3:17 am • 1 0 • view
Why the right keeps winning.
mar 8, 2025, 5:39 pm • 5 0 • view
Ds have been twitchy ever since 1980 and Ronnie Raygun kicked our ass. All that 60s radicalism also exhausted everyone and the center seemed the right way to go. It always seemed more like capitulation to me.
mar 9, 2025, 3:19 am • 0 0 • view
If you give people a choice between Coke and Diet Coke, they’re gonna take Coke.
mar 8, 2025, 5:44 pm • 1 0 • view
I am a rural Democrat and the left needs to move more to the center. They need to focus on core issues, the fact that they focus on far left fringe issues right now is what is the problem. Once they take back control then focus on the social issues after you fix the economy. It's not rocket science!
mar 8, 2025, 6:13 pm • 2 0 • view
The US does not have a left really. The Democrats are, relative to other wealthy countries, center/center right. The US needs a new left that supports working people and is not afraid to say how socialism brings people together.
mar 9, 2025, 8:47 am • 2 0 • view
We don’t have a left because we have oligarchy. We have illusions of electoral power, illusions of accountable governance, but the money is what selects things. We have to get money out of politics, but then again, this country was founded by wealthy white businessmen for wealthy white businessmen.
mar 9, 2025, 5:05 pm • 1 0 • view
That sounds defeatist to me. As long as there are communities that support one another and can, collectively, drive action then there is a left! Organised individuals can and do change the course of their country even in the face of an establishment run by billionaries. Vote the money out!
mar 10, 2025, 9:32 am • 0 0 • view
It isn’t defeatist to acknowledge that we have a lot of work to do.
mar 10, 2025, 1:54 pm • 0 0 • view
There is a left, that's my point.
mar 10, 2025, 2:52 pm • 0 0 • view
I am fine with democratic socialism......we kind of already have that. Just needs to be made more efficient in order to help everyone who needs it
mar 9, 2025, 4:52 pm • 1 0 • view
I agree!!!
mar 9, 2025, 4:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Seriously! Let’s freaking scream about progressive causes. Stop saying we aren’t them. Start by saying this is who we are and how we want to make America an amazing place once more, for everyone. I mean honestly if we just ran on FDRs 2nd Bill Of Rights… It’s that easy.
mar 8, 2025, 6:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Exactly, they need to tell their own story. Remember all those pieces about how DeSantis was going to beat Trump easily to the nomination because he was Trump lite.
mar 8, 2025, 9:23 pm • 0 0 • view
That strategy has been tried for decades and failed. Or: it’s called, the emperor has no clothes so let’s put on underwear and call it a day.
mar 8, 2025, 5:41 pm • 9 2 • view
Agreed
mar 8, 2025, 5:36 pm • 4 0 • view
Yeah the so called moderate republicans are already voting with maga so why TF would we want that.
mar 9, 2025, 2:39 am • 0 0 • view
“I need to appeal to these bigots if I want to win my election” -Democrats
mar 8, 2025, 8:08 pm • 0 0 • view
At least mine wins. Better than losing for 12 years previously.
mar 8, 2025, 8:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Exactly. Democrats are afraid of the message that unifies + inspires aggressive opposition to Trump 2.0 white supremacy. A multi-racial, multi-cultural, pro-immigrant, pro-gender equality, pro-LGBTQ, pro-science, pro-democracy message. Dems are afraid this message scares "working-class" whites
mar 8, 2025, 9:26 pm • 1 0 • view
The Dems are already centrists. We elected Joe Biden. Barak Obama was the most conservative Democratic president since Grover Cleveland. I loved them both, but if we move further right, we'll be a center-right party and we don't need that.
mar 8, 2025, 7:15 pm • 4 0 • view
The Democrats, relative to Europe, are center-right. Even the UK conservatives support our free health care.
mar 9, 2025, 8:43 am • 1 0 • view
In the 1980s there were people warning that "given the choice between a me-too Republican-lite and a real Republican, they'll vote for the latter every time."
mar 8, 2025, 7:17 pm • 2 0 • view
Not to mention our “left” is moderate in other developed nations.
mar 8, 2025, 6:43 pm • 1 0 • view
It’s very moderate, yep.
mar 9, 2025, 8:45 am • 0 0 • view
I have been following you for some time .. you are awesome !! I hope more folks get going like you are doing. There was a time I had such energy but at 83 I can just make calls and e-mail. Keep fighting!!
mar 8, 2025, 7:22 pm • 0 0 • view
I often think about the “autopsy” the GOP did after losing badly in 2012, (after doing so well in the 2010 midterms). There was a big push by the establishment to tack towards the center. This strategy was ignored and they instead tacked further to the Right, a move which paid off big time in 2016.
mar 8, 2025, 5:44 pm • 2 0 • view
Move to the left. Universal healthCARE minimum.
mar 9, 2025, 4:16 am • 8 0 • view
you have to do it in your own voting districts,
mar 9, 2025, 6:50 am • 0 0 • view
Absolutely. The Dems strength is the cities and they should build on that.
mar 8, 2025, 8:52 pm • 0 0 • view
mar 8, 2025, 6:46 pm • 2 0 • view
Agreed!!! Dems are so afraid to say what people want to hear! Why?!? I don’t get it!
mar 8, 2025, 7:47 pm • 0 0 • view
Be a genuine leader for the masses, for the good for the nation and not for special interests or niche groups on any side. We are pigeon holed into left wing unpopular ideologies and that is not a winning electoral strategy. Be like Bernie and Al Green - talk about the big stuff affecting Americans
mar 8, 2025, 7:08 pm • 2 0 • view
This! 👏🏼
mar 8, 2025, 5:37 pm • 5 0 • view
Violent agreement 💙
mar 8, 2025, 7:42 pm • 0 0 • view
There is no middle ground when one side relies almost completely on lies to provide cover for people to support their policies using bigotry, racism, and prejudice as the voice in the background.
mar 9, 2025, 5:51 am • 1 1 • view
I will never understand this strategy, when millions are screaming for change.
mar 9, 2025, 4:03 am • 0 0 • view