You know, maybe all those years of being taught that extremism is bad and centrism is good, while fascism was on the rise, was just manipulation to keep people from pushing back.
If a centrist saw a burning building he'd lecture the fire crew for wanting to change too much.
The right wing base does not demand purity tests. Take that as you will.
And they have a pedophile leading them, so I don’t think I’ll be taking cues from them, actually
The right wing base does not demand purity tests.
What convinced you of this? I've seen this claim before, but I've never seen it backed up by anything.
For example, does the right-wing base support pro-choice candidates? How about pro-LGBTQ candidates? What concessions has the base made to the Republican Party?
The main purity test right now in the Republican party is simply whether an elected leader is willing to be completely subservient to Trump.
Naw, it's about Israel.
"Conservatives are quick to denounce each other, jump on dogpiles, disavow, attack their allies," The Daily Wire's Matt Walsh wrote...
"The left will keep up the united front and defend their guys no matter what, while we keep throwing each other to the wolves at every opportunity. Great plan."
Sound familiar?
You never heard of a RINO? This is exactly how conservatives have managed to pull the party so far to the right.
If we abandon our principles we're no better than they are. That being said, don't let perfect be the enemy of good.
There are some things which should be non-negotiable. One of them should be free and universal health care. That seems eminently reasonable, since other developed nations have this.
anti-genocide should also be a non-negotiable 'purity test' as well, to the dismay of many establishment Dems arms-deep in AIPAC money
democrats: "communist revolution? that pales in comparison to my strategy, winning elections!"
and then they don’t win elections
You dont understand, we cant afford to campaign on popular social welfare, or popular taxes on rich people, or protecting those popular rights you people are always going on about, or preventing the very unpopular corruption, and we definitely cant capaign on the very popular subject of the epstein files. Right now we have to worry about electability by showing moderate republicans we can reach across the aisle.
can we not make this comm us-centric please
In the sidebar listed under ‘our goals’:
Stimulating a massive wave of worker organizing in the United States and beyond.
It sounds like this is already a US-centric comm?
it does, yeah. doesn't sound like it's for memes though.
Where meme?
All I see is a block of text that makes a great point. Just because it’s a picture of text doesn’t make it a meme
i think the meme is that the democratic party is just slightly less right wing than the republicans :D
That's exactly what they are
A place to discuss positive changes that can make work more equitable, and to vent about current practices. We are NOT against work; we just want the fruits of our labor to be recognized better.
Our Philosophies:
Our Goals
