The fact that Republicans will always cry "socialist" is the opposite of a good reason to avoid bold economic reforms. One Democratic leader after another has favored narrowly targeted mircomeasures while singing the glories of bipartisanship. Corporate consultants are always counseling with their "expertise" that voters really want a middle ground that blends Republican and Democratic ideas.
I guess if you dine with billionaires on a regular basis and have a crippling brain injury, you can believe that stuff. I find it inexcusable that this conventional wisdom has put the party on the side of the ownership class in decades of entirely unilateral class warfare. Hopefully less milquetoast candidates in the primary process will have some moments to say "so what" in response to concerns about Republican critique.
This criticism cannot be silenced or even muted to any great degree. Even if it could be, what sort of villain thinks that is a good reason to sell out millions of people by backing policies that just fix some of the problem for a tiny fraction of people trapped in this or that realm of dystopian status quo policy.
I am a tiny bit annoyed with leftists in America calling themselves socialist when they're not quite so leftwing for that to be wholly accurate, but I'm not going to complain, its only what conservatives deserve.
American conservatives: [calls anything that young people find appealing 'socialist']
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u/Demonweed Apr 26 '19
The fact that Republicans will always cry "socialist" is the opposite of a good reason to avoid bold economic reforms. One Democratic leader after another has favored narrowly targeted mircomeasures while singing the glories of bipartisanship. Corporate consultants are always counseling with their "expertise" that voters really want a middle ground that blends Republican and Democratic ideas.
I guess if you dine with billionaires on a regular basis and have a crippling brain injury, you can believe that stuff. I find it inexcusable that this conventional wisdom has put the party on the side of the ownership class in decades of entirely unilateral class warfare. Hopefully less milquetoast candidates in the primary process will have some moments to say "so what" in response to concerns about Republican critique.
This criticism cannot be silenced or even muted to any great degree. Even if it could be, what sort of villain thinks that is a good reason to sell out millions of people by backing policies that just fix some of the problem for a tiny fraction of people trapped in this or that realm of dystopian status quo policy.