This is part of the reason I bicker with Liberals about appealing to electoralism all the damn time. Great, we technically got a “D” win, but the party installed a senator that doesn’t vote with the party and pulls the senate more “center” as they try to scoop up disaffected conservatives. So, they effectively installed their own opposition. Well done.
Very much the smartest people in the room.
Note: venting, and I’m not talking about individuals just the collective “wisdom” of belt-way liberals.
For my own understanding, I want to have it explained to me how it was unhinged!
Granted, voicing the take as I did pertaining to Manchin likely isn’t the smartest due to his electorate demographics, but I can recall a few cases where Democrat party officials threw their weight behind more center primary candidates as an appeal towards the center.
Edit: I suppose my umbrige is with how those candidates coincidentally happen to favor neo-liberal tendencies and don’t advocate for working class or on environmental issues. Cause, man, what a dream it would be to have an actual left party as opposed to a center and right.
“Liberal” in this context is from a socialist/communist lens. It’s not what the US calls “liberal”. It’s just another name for a capitalist, as in what Adam Smith defined. “Economic” liberalism.
Lemmy did an odd thing. I replied to someone replying to the top comment (“bickering with liberals”), who had assumed that poster was a Trumper. The person I replied to even replied to my comment, then they deleted both and my reply somehow ended up attached to your comment instead.
Dude, you’re the uninformed one here not knowing about basic political science terms. Again, the US idea of “liberal” is not what the rest of the world calls “liberal”.
This is part of the reason I bicker with Liberals about appealing to electoralism all the damn time. Great, we technically got a “D” win, but the party installed a senator that doesn’t vote with the party and pulls the senate more “center” as they try to scoop up disaffected conservatives. So, they effectively installed their own opposition. Well done.
Very much the smartest people in the room.
Note: venting, and I’m not talking about individuals just the collective “wisdom” of belt-way liberals.
OMG having this argument with people is maddening. Their refusal to think logically makes me want to bash my head on a wall
Right? That top-level comment is completely unhinged.
No the top level comment is the logical take
For my own understanding, I want to have it explained to me how it was unhinged!
Granted, voicing the take as I did pertaining to Manchin likely isn’t the smartest due to his electorate demographics, but I can recall a few cases where Democrat party officials threw their weight behind more center primary candidates as an appeal towards the center.
Edit: I suppose my umbrige is with how those candidates coincidentally happen to favor neo-liberal tendencies and don’t advocate for working class or on environmental issues. Cause, man, what a dream it would be to have an actual left party as opposed to a center and right.
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“Liberal” in this context is from a socialist/communist lens. It’s not what the US calls “liberal”. It’s just another name for a capitalist, as in what Adam Smith defined. “Economic” liberalism.
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On Lemmy people deriding liberals are very often farther left, not conservatives.
Centrists don’t care. They punch left while screaming that they’re punching right.
Lemmy did an odd thing. I replied to someone replying to the top comment (“bickering with liberals”), who had assumed that poster was a Trumper. The person I replied to even replied to my comment, then they deleted both and my reply somehow ended up attached to your comment instead.
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Dude, you’re the uninformed one here not knowing about basic political science terms. Again, the US idea of “liberal” is not what the rest of the world calls “liberal”.
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Yeah but is the “douchebag” comment really neccessary when you were corrected on something? This ain’t Reddit. Chill.
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I mean you’re not wrong