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you want to know what happened, i can show you.
first @thedemocrats and @GOP swapped places.
this was called the #southernstrategy and is what got Reagan elected.
anyone remember the #moralmajority? (which was neither, btw)
this was called the #southernstrategy and is what got Reagan elected.
anyone remember the #moralmajority? (which was neither, btw)
then, @TheDemocrats proceeded to sidle up to the corporations, eventually over taking the role of corporate money funnel to drain the 99% of any hope for retirement, health security, or peace.
all whilst while china wealthy and building their middle class.
all whilst while china wealthy and building their middle class.
To that point. it is also, IMHO, about Character and Leadership ...
🔸about the ability to achieve those same policies
🔸the fight in the person
🔸the aptitude for achieving within a group
I may not be saying this very well, but these things matter.
🔸about the ability to achieve those same policies
🔸the fight in the person
🔸the aptitude for achieving within a group
I may not be saying this very well, but these things matter.
Really?!!
[I'm going to bring this back into the convo thread]
[I'm going to bring this back into the convo thread]
So .. REALLY ?! Come on now. Here's a little of what #Bernie achieved as an Indie in Congress DURING that period..
1. Dear You-Who-Can't-Understand-Why-I-Don't-Adore-Bernie:
I apologize for the length of this thread but I feel it is necessary to explain why there's a huge segment of #Democrats who can't stomach him. Let's first start with him - aside from attending one protest in college
I apologize for the length of this thread but I feel it is necessary to explain why there's a huge segment of #Democrats who can't stomach him. Let's first start with him - aside from attending one protest in college
2. where he was arrested and released, and claiming to have attended others, his record on civil rights is scant; as is his record on LGBTQ rights, women's issues and anything else that doesn't have to do with seizing the wealth of those detested "millionaires and billionaires"
3. he's obsessed with taking down and "redistributing" it. He was a back-bencher, quite literally, all his life. In 2015, mostly because of his dislike of the Clintons (one of those families who's wealth he'd like to seize) he (regrettably) got on the ticket for the
allow me to explain:
first thing to realize is that compromise usually involved splitting the difference (e.g. arbitration -- if you've ever been privy, you know exactly what i mean).
next you need to understate that starting positions matter
first thing to realize is that compromise usually involved splitting the difference (e.g. arbitration -- if you've ever been privy, you know exactly what i mean).
next you need to understate that starting positions matter
now we come to the republicans..
they know to start out WAY to the right of anything sane
democrats, being slightly more reasonable tend to open with somthing they thing will win the other side over to their POV.
... it ... will ... not ....
so this happens.
they know to start out WAY to the right of anything sane
democrats, being slightly more reasonable tend to open with somthing they thing will win the other side over to their POV.
... it ... will ... not ....
so this happens.
after a few years of this (say since 1980) you end up with both parties being FAR to the right of anything that a rational person would consider CENTER
enter #bernie sanders and his populist, moderate policy positions like #medicareforall or raising the minimum wage
enter #bernie sanders and his populist, moderate policy positions like #medicareforall or raising the minimum wage
1) Disturbing to me in #Mueller indictments was allegation of #Russia plant of #IaCaucus #Fraud stories. That broke the back of the party in #Iowa 4 2016 cycle. Caused mass party switches to independent in some parts of #IA. Remember #DemExit? #TrumpRussia #IaPolitics #IaDem
When #DemExit on #twitter & #FB was ongoing, I had a face2face discussion in #Fairfield of voter registration changes at the #JeffersonCounty court house. There were quite a few -- a direct consequence of #Bernie people being angry cuz they had seen SM fraud stories. #IaPolitics
3) I really saw damage from #TrumpRussia #IaCaucusFraud allegations in Oct 2016 going door-to-door in #Fairfield. The #DemVoter lists were "squishy." Lots of changed parties, lots of discussion of the #IaCaucus allegations of fraud and not voting #IaDem. #Mueller #iapolitics
1/ Ok.. so I am gonna talk about the deleterious effect that @twitter promulgates by #shadowbanning certain voices
2/ Fair warning I am going to @ a number of accounts.. if you are one of these and wish no notifications going forward: just mute the conversation. support.twitter.com/articles/20175…
3/ In June /July 2016 I predicted, via twitter that @realdonaldtrump would win by roughly the margin of ECV (electoral college votes) that he actually won by (I was a state or so out)
