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This is not the right framing. The left vs right battle was invented so people wouldn't think about the up vs down battle. It's wealthy people vs everyone else
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 1y ago
This is not the right framing. The left vs right battle was invented so people wouldn't think about the up vs down battle. It's wealthy people vs everyone else but the wealthy people convinced everyone else that it's red vs blue.
- deadbabe 1y agoThis is also overly simplified. It suggests the battlefield is on a two axis graph but really there’s 3 dimensions.
- an0malous 1y agoThis is absolutely correct, just observe how both parties attack Zohran Mamdani in spite of his wild popularity
- huhkerrf 1y agoThe wild popularity of... checks... getting 56% of ranked-choice votes (44% of first place votes) in a Democratic Party primary in one of the most reliably Democratic cities in the US.
- an0malous 1y agoYes exactly. It doesn’t matter that it’s a democratic city because, as you said, it was the democratic primary so every candidate was a democrat.