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Top Comments (10)
One of the most frustrating things about Ezra Klein is that he has so much unearned influence.
The corporate democrats are gatekeepimg entry and ideas to the party. Which means they're growing increasingly smaller and less powerful. Now they've turned their backs on the middle class so thats a huge loss of voters too
Folks really think centrism makes them immune from extremism.
What moderates don’t understand is Republicans play to win and Democrats play not to lose. Playing not to lose guarantees a loss. 😮💨
I will take it a step further with a great point I have heard in different ways from both Cenk and Kyle: Many of the dems the media calls moderates are truly center-rght. For instance, while BBB was painted as this leftie over-reach in mainstream media, it was truly moderate positions with broad support (universal pre-k, Medicare expansions, subsidized childcare, free community college, paid parental leave, etc.) where even conservative friends I know agree with a good chunk (ex. parental leave), let alone Americans as a whole and the democratic base. That's why Zohran did so well, he is good at breaking down how his positions are truly moderate and the status quo is extremist.
getting it wrong or manufacturing opinions?
"gets" wrong? ..... or- *MAKES* wrong ........
These pseudo-intellectual "moderate" Democrats are really just Blue Republicans. Their job is to repackage conservatism in a way that's acceptable to an uneducated person more inclined to feel empathy than a traditional conservative is. Everything in our current political system is designed to prevent working class people from ever having any measure of power or say in this country. That's what this is about, the wealthy don't want the slaves running the plantation because then the working class aren't slaves and the wealthy don't own them anymore.
7:00 kinda like what Kyle from secular talk says. You wanna win by 1 point or 15 points?
This is the best thumbnail EVER! 😂💪💙
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Top Comments (10)
One of the most frustrating things about Ezra Klein is that he has so much unearned influence.
The corporate democrats are gatekeepimg entry and ideas to the party. Which means they're growing increasingly smaller and less powerful. Now they've turned their backs on the middle class so thats a huge loss of voters too
Folks really think centrism makes them immune from extremism.
What moderates don’t understand is Republicans play to win and Democrats play not to lose. Playing not to lose guarantees a loss. 😮💨
I will take it a step further with a great point I have heard in different ways from both Cenk and Kyle: Many of the dems the media calls moderates are truly center-rght. For instance, while BBB was painted as this leftie over-reach in mainstream media, it was truly moderate positions with broad support (universal pre-k, Medicare expansions, subsidized childcare, free community college, paid parental leave, etc.) where even conservative friends I know agree with a good chunk (ex. parental leave), let alone Americans as a whole and the democratic base. That's why Zohran did so well, he is good at breaking down how his positions are truly moderate and the status quo is extremist.
getting it wrong or manufacturing opinions?
"gets" wrong? ..... or- *MAKES* wrong ........
These pseudo-intellectual "moderate" Democrats are really just Blue Republicans. Their job is to repackage conservatism in a way that's acceptable to an uneducated person more inclined to feel empathy than a traditional conservative is. Everything in our current political system is designed to prevent working class people from ever having any measure of power or say in this country. That's what this is about, the wealthy don't want the slaves running the plantation because then the working class aren't slaves and the wealthy don't own them anymore.
7:00 kinda like what Kyle from secular talk says. You wanna win by 1 point or 15 points?
This is the best thumbnail EVER! 😂💪💙