He ran on a public healthcare option, bailing out homeowners, regulating banks, closing Gitmo, ending the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Saying he appealed to centrists is revisionist nonsense.
So, is there any candidate you won’t retroactively call a centrist in order to justify moving even further to the right from where the party is now?
You are so married to the idea of moving to the right and only the right that you are unwilling to admit that the situation has changed. In the last three elections (I know, in your mind it’s still the 90s and nothing has changed, but humor me) we have run three centrist candidates. Two lost, one won but it was a squeaker.
Moving to the right and only the right has hit a wall. You’ll advocate for it forever, regardless of the actual political reality. After all, the alternative is a nightmare hellscape where people are paid a living wage for their labor and healthcare is more than a means to extract every last dime from people before they die.
Obama won because he appealed to centrists
centrists have a 27% approval rating for a reason.
Which is better than progressives approval rating for a reason.
Got numbers for that or are you lying yet again?
Yeah I got them from the same source as OPs “27%”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/democratic-party-hits-new-polling-low-voters-want-fight-trump-harder-rcna196161
Here’s a source for the 27% figure. Now where’s your source?
The person that posted that number wasn’t you. How could you know their source unless you are using it as an alt account or lying?
There’s this thing on the internet called a search engine. I just looked up “democrats 27%” without the quotes.
Now where’s your source?
Why the progressive ‘Squad’ is getting smaller after defeats this primary cycle
He ran on a public healthcare option, bailing out homeowners, regulating banks, closing Gitmo, ending the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Saying he appealed to centrists is revisionist nonsense.
Those are liberal policies not leftist. Saying Obama was a leftist is revisionist nonsense.
No, this was the liberal policy.
Obama won by running to Clinton’s left.
This is still centrists which is why he won.
So, is there any candidate you won’t retroactively call a centrist in order to justify moving even further to the right from where the party is now?
You are so married to the idea of moving to the right and only the right that you are unwilling to admit that the situation has changed. In the last three elections (I know, in your mind it’s still the 90s and nothing has changed, but humor me) we have run three centrist candidates. Two lost, one won but it was a squeaker.
Moving to the right and only the right has hit a wall. You’ll advocate for it forever, regardless of the actual political reality. After all, the alternative is a nightmare hellscape where people are paid a living wage for their labor and healthcare is more than a means to extract every last dime from people before they die.
I’m not advocating for the move to the right. Just pointing out it is a result of low leftists voter turnout.
Then acknowledge that it has failed.
If it is what the voters voted for then it has not failed.
And you think they voted for it?
Let’s see if you can stop pretending it’s still the 90s.
How do you think our politicians were elected?