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She is also a consummate politician, who has been known to say misleading and inflammatory things for political gain. She has also been busy steaming leftwards,
by fhood 8y ago
She is also a consummate politician, who has been known to say misleading and inflammatory things for political gain. She has also been busy steaming leftwards, a move that may endear her to young hyper-liberal voters, but does very little to help my country move past the political chasm that has opened up, and is crippling our government.
I don't think that she is a bad person, but I do believe that she is bad for American politics right now.
- dsfyu404ed 8y agoThis. I liked her when she primarily concerned herself with consumer advocacy.
- awelkie 8y agoNot to get too off topic, but I have a hard time blaming the left for the current political divide in the United States. Saying that someone who pushes leftwards is bad for American politics because they're not closer to the "center" seems like promoting a false equivalence.
- fhood 8y agoI agree, and I don't blame the left as much as I blame the right. I do however think that exacerbating the divide is a bad thing.
- s73v3r_ 8y agoBut anything but going closer to the Right is "exacerbating the divide."
- Dirlewanger 8y agoIf you don't think both sides play a part in the precipitous spike in polarizing political discourse, then frankly you are ignorant.
- eropple 8y agoUhh. One side saying "kids shouldn't take six figures of debt to go to the college we've collectively insisted they need to go to" and the other saying "blood and soil, Jews will not replace us" are not the same thing, yo.
- s73v3r_ 8y ago"but does very little to help my country move past the political chasm that has opened up, and is crippling our government." The Right has never seemed interested in engaging the Left. So why is it now the Left's fault that they are recognizing that, and showing less interest in engaging the Right?
- fhood 8y agoBecause we aren't trying to win an argument here. It isn't about being in the right or winning, it is about successfully running a country.
- s73v3r_ 8y agoThat still doesn't answer the question of why the Right isn't blamed for not reaching out to the Left. And given that they're the ones in power, it's their responsibility to do the reaching out.
- naravara 8y agoThe Right, particularly the "Freedom" Caucus goons, are specifically opposed to successfully running a country. They resent the very existence of government intervening on behalf of people at the expense of their donors. It is impossible to successfully run a country if you give those people veto power over the legislative process. They are here to engage in sabotage, not progress.
- stuckinarut 8y agoThe democrats just need to move even further right than their current neoliberal catering exclusively to donors platform. That would close the gap.
- stuckinarut 8y agoThe political chasm is because the democrats keep moving right to try and win over moderate republicans the republicans keep moving into crazy territory. Moving leftwards is absolutely the best thing the democrats could possibly do. further left policies are popular. Further left policies address the massive amount of voters who don't give a shit because neither party represents anything but corporations. America could use 50 more senators that were willing to start moving much further left.