Thank you! Exactly this.
When you try too hard to get exactly what you want, you risk excluding more people from the coalition necessary to succeed. I’d love there to be a hyper-liberal, Green, pro-choice, internationalist, pro-science political party. I’d join! And so would about 56,000 other people. We wouldn’t have a chance in hell at the White House!
Oh, a lot more than that, I daresay, Sanders’ campaign alone is getting a lot more than that.
Nevertheless, this remains true. The only practical way progressivism can rule America is by taking over the Democrats Tea-Party style.
But, I suspect we do have the numbers to do that.
What a deplorable theology she must have.
I guess she thinks God is a vindictive prick.
Sigh. Maybe we should start a separate “batshit crazy religious politician of the day” thread.
I don’t want the White House. I want the state house and enough legislators to push the main parties to consider issues I care about.
To be fair, in a lot of the bible, God totally is.
Why has God always sent messages in such oblique obscure formats anyway? If God wants to stick it to Obama, why doesn’t He just rain down fire and brimstone on Washington (or wherever Obama happens to be)?
Well, we knew that! He makes us piss and fuck with the same organ! :eek:
I like Obama’s response to Cruz:
Obama could have added that Ted’s father helped that type of government come into existence in the first place.
Do you really want that? They’ve lost two presidential elections and the party is in the process of imploding. The only reason they’ve done so well in congress is that Republicans care far more about the party than about democracy or the country, and so will go to extreme lengths to gerrymander to get safe districts, exclude voters if possible, and obstruct. I don’t think progressives are capable of such things, thank Og.
If Sanders wins by some chance and little or none of his initiatives get passed, what is that going to do to the movement? It made the Tea Party more radical. Is that the kind of thing you want?
Much as I’d love to see these things happen, in reality him winning would set the Progressive movement back decades, and they are valuable in pulling the Democrats a bit more to the left.
I’m not talking about Sanders winning, I’m talking about progressives taking over the party, which won’t happen this year. It’s a long game.
“entanpanuer” – That’s . . . that’s not even a misspelling, that’s some completely new word she made up.
Entrephinated, perhaps.
So God is just tasking elections?
To make identifying them easier, be sure to make them wear recognizable marks on their clothing, like, say, crescents.
The Tea Party has never elected a president either. Just taking over a party isn’t enough. You have to change the conversation.
The Occupy Movement, though they fizzled out, did help in making us think of the 1%. Republicans even have to pretend to talk about income inequality now.