Do not give those extremist fuckers an inch.
How about maybe appointing a leftist, socialist, or communist?
Neolibs would rather rub elbows with fascists than they would with progressives, let alone an actual leftist.
That would be the way to match the rhetoric.
If she can find an actual Republican and not a Magat or Libturd then it’s probably not a bad idea.
So while I generally think this is a dumb idea, if it were Adam kinzinger, I think that could potentially be a really sharp choice. It’d definitely be very interesting to see how it played out.
Listened to the entire interview. At no point does she pledge that. She simply doesn't rule it out and is willing to consider.
That header is clickbait bullshit .
she's not selling bibles or nfts or pardons.
this will be a good show.
Please don't.
She will. Democrats always inexplicably rule as conservatives, so this would track well with recent history.
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I heard this louder than literally any other comment I've read this year
Not sure this is really Onion material. Diversity of thought is very important. If elected a cabinet of yes men might do her some harm. Even one dissenting voice can at least demonstrate how non partymembers might react to her plans. Allowing her to cater them to better appeal to a larger amount of the nation's people.
Diversity of thought is very important
So she's going to appoint a Democratic Socialist? No? Someone from Sunrise then? No? A Palestinian-American Democrat? They couldn't even get 2 minutes at the convention. How about a BLM activist? She marched for that cause, surely that's some diversity she'd want to have represented. Not that either? Hm.
Maybe this isn't about diversity of thought and instead about the doomed Democratic instinct to try to coopt the center-right, which according to the theory of centrism will make them win forever! Just not any of the times they've already tried it.
If she marched for the cause of BLM adding another person from that group wouldn't add a novel view point if that is already one of her own. As for the other groups you mentioned I think that they would be good additions. A homogeneous cabinet is pointless.
I didn't ask whether you thought they were diverse, I asked whether you thought they would ever be given the same consideration in the name of "diversity of thought". We both know they won't.
Diversity of thought is very important.
Sure, Jan.
Putting a fascist in a position of power creates diversity of thought in the same way that polluting a river adds flavor to drinking water.
We can have diversity of thought without indulging fascists. Germany's been doing it for almost a century now.
Cabinet positions are advisory and have little actually power. And not everyone "who was a Republican" is a fascist.
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Jed Bartlet couldn't get elected in this country.
He barely got elected to his first term. He didn't even get a majority of the popular vote, just more than his opponent. He only beat the shit out of "Crime, boy, I dunno" for his second term.
I came for this comment, Ainsley Hayes was a fun character
"so their congress seat flips lololol"
Adam Kinzinger seems pretty cool
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