It’s not just that, a lot of people are weirdly insistent on the myth that progressive fiscal policy isn’t popular everywhere.
It fucking is.
I grew up in a county that voted over 95% trump the last three elections. I haven’t lived there for a long time, but I know the people and most of them are closer than 3rd cousins to me.
They’ve always wanted progressive policy, it’s just for the last 30 years that hasn’t been an option for them.
Stuff like better schools, better healthcare, workers protections, living wages…
All that is insanely popular all over the country. The problem is neoliberals never want to fix it, and with the prior top-down party structure they could crush progressives all over the country.
We’re back to bottom up, and progressives thrive there because it’s voters picking candidates and not billionaire donors.
We won’t just see a blue wave, we’ll see a wave of progressives who actually put in the work to fix shit
It seems to me that progressive policy, in general, is popular everywhere. Here in Missouri we got legal weed when it was put to a vote, the same with abortion rights. Across the border in Oklahoma they got one of the most lenient medical marijuana policies in the country. There are a lot of examples of similar things in other red states. The left needs to figure out a way to push progressive legislation without tying it to a party.
The left needs to figure out a way to push progressive legislation without tying it to a party.
I mean, it’s not like it’s a mystery…
Read that PBS interview, all the DNC had to do was keep their thumb off the scales, and that’s what’s happening.
The idea that it took some crazy strategy and loads of money was neoliberal propaganda to excuse why their chosen candidates wouldn’t actually help anyone.
It is not hard to be an honest politician when you get to run in fair elections.
And primaries never have to be fair, that’s why it’s important the party elects leadership whose sole focus is running fair and unbiased primaries. Not doing that for 30 years is why shit is so fucked right now.
People have very short memories.
It’s not just that, a lot of people are weirdly insistent on the myth that progressive fiscal policy isn’t popular everywhere.
It fucking is.
I grew up in a county that voted over 95% trump the last three elections. I haven’t lived there for a long time, but I know the people and most of them are closer than 3rd cousins to me.
They’ve always wanted progressive policy, it’s just for the last 30 years that hasn’t been an option for them.
Stuff like better schools, better healthcare, workers protections, living wages…
All that is insanely popular all over the country. The problem is neoliberals never want to fix it, and with the prior top-down party structure they could crush progressives all over the country.
We’re back to bottom up, and progressives thrive there because it’s voters picking candidates and not billionaire donors.
We won’t just see a blue wave, we’ll see a wave of progressives who actually put in the work to fix shit
It seems to me that progressive policy, in general, is popular everywhere. Here in Missouri we got legal weed when it was put to a vote, the same with abortion rights. Across the border in Oklahoma they got one of the most lenient medical marijuana policies in the country. There are a lot of examples of similar things in other red states. The left needs to figure out a way to push progressive legislation without tying it to a party.
I mean, it’s not like it’s a mystery…
Read that PBS interview, all the DNC had to do was keep their thumb off the scales, and that’s what’s happening.
The idea that it took some crazy strategy and loads of money was neoliberal propaganda to excuse why their chosen candidates wouldn’t actually help anyone.
It is not hard to be an honest politician when you get to run in fair elections.
And primaries never have to be fair, that’s why it’s important the party elects leadership whose sole focus is running fair and unbiased primaries. Not doing that for 30 years is why shit is so fucked right now.
People also have very short memories.