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We have elections coming. I am all for arrests, impeachments, and the like, but boy, it would be super helpful if we coul prime the pump by removing some of the
by bsanr2 6y ago
We have elections coming. I am all for arrests, impeachments, and the like, but boy, it would be super helpful if we coul prime the pump by removing some of these ghouls at the top. That signals a mandate.
Many of you live in San Francisco. Your House rep, Nancy Pelosi, with whom I am sure you are familiar, has a serious challenger in Shahid Buttar. He is pushing to debate her, which should be the bare minimum for electoral rivals, yet AFAIK no date has been set. No one in the media or in the political establishment is holding her feet to the fire.
We could start there.
- eli_gottlieb 6y agoSure, except that replacing a corporate liberal with a slightly less corporate radical liberal isn't really the change the country needs. Sorry, I support Buttar too, but replacing Pelosi with Buttar while keeping Mitch McConnell accomplishes little to nothing. We need to take the rightmost edge of the Overton Window, and push that to the left, making the obstruction of "merely" liberal policies with broad public support, like the CARES Act and Heroes Act, unacceptable.
- fennecfoxen 6y agoI'd like to close the Overton window on the sentiment, "Opposition to my preferred policies must be unacceptable." Two trillion in CARES Act spending and it's unacceptable to second-guess it? Sorry, this is precisely where more scrutiny and critical thought is needed, not less.
- bsanr2 6y agoPelosi is effectively right-wing, as far as the rest of the world would be concerned, and the DNC is already supporting McConnell's Democratic challenger. We can dethrone both.
- eli_gottlieb 6y agoSure, but personally, I'd concentrate more on McConnell, since he's the one who runs the Senate as an authoritarian party-state in which everything is evaluated by how it affects Republican power. Also, I frankly don't trust Californian politicians of any stripe, "liberal" or "leftist", to implement the left-wing agenda they claim to stand for.
- bsanr2 6y agoI just want you to know that this is not a compelling argument.
- eli_gottlieb 6y agoSure. I was stating my evaluation, not arguing that you should adopt it. If you think you can somehow convince Californian "leftists" to solve the housing crisis, bring down the cost of the UC system for in-state students, provide truly universal health-care, or strengthen organized labor, I wish you all the luck you'll need.
- bsanr2 6y agoBy that same token, why do we have any faith in Kentucky citizens to not vote for a Republican? Frankly, they're both "lost causes" from the majority of possible vectors. I would wager equally so, forgetting ideology and just going off the momentum of incumbency. Unfortunately, the situation is so dire that any victory that's even remotely possible is crucial. Don't throw anything out, because we might need everything. We'll just have to throw our weight behind whatever we can until all our options are exhausted.
- srnvs123 6y agoSo now being against freely printing $3 TR, and sending out handouts is considered 'unacceptable'? I personally know friends who claim that they'd stop working if they keep receiving handouts. And I live in Canada, where handouts are MUCH easier to come by. You claim 'broad public support'. Any source to back that up?
- eli_gottlieb 6y ago> So now being against freely printing $3 TR, and sending out handouts is considered 'unacceptable'? No, referring to coronavirus aid bills as "blue-state bailouts" and running the Senate as a party-state are unacceptable.
- srnvs123 6y agoI see, so you're saying that your opinion that the Senate is run as a 'Party-state' is unacceptable. But that's just your opinion.