StrangeSox

"Bernie's brand" has done well in some races and not in others. I don't think there's any basis for your sweeping dismissal of it (and implicit endorsement of centrist politicians in its place). I'm not a guy shouting that we need to primary Joe Manchin because he casts a lot of votes I don't like--I recognize that he's probably the best we can hope for from WV. Certainly miles better than any R replacement. But I do reject the idea that Democrats need to essentially cede political ground to Republicans and run as Republican-lite everywhere. In some places maybe that's what needed, but then again, maybe it isn't! Doug Jones didn't back down into wishy-washy nonsense on abortion on his way to winning Alabama. Conor Lamb isn't some progressive hero, but he took strong stances rather than capitulate to whatever framing Republicans have put out there as we saw again and again in 2010-2016. And on the flip side, you've got guys like Ossof who ran seemingly blah campaigns that didn't really end up going anywhere. Just look at Virginia last year. You had candidates across the Dem spectrum doing well. Look at the new da in Philly. Cheering for more centrist candidates to beat progressive candidates because electibility doesn't have a strong track record. At least the "run socialists everywhere" side doesn't have a history of failure since it's never really been tried.

Running in primaries against other candidates isn't "attacking dems," though. You seem gleeful that more progressive candidates are losing simply because Sanders' organization endorsed them. Guess what! There's lots of disagreement ideologically within the Democratic base as well! A lot of people are beyond frustrated with the approaches of the Clintons and Schumers of the world. A whole lot of people were disillusioned when Obama's Hope and Change was undermined by people like Lieberman. I hate that my rep is probably the worst Dem in Congress (Lipinski), it's a shame he barely held on in his primary despite being "attacked" by someone daring to challenge him and his awful policies. There's plenty of dumb in the Sanders camp, too. Some who'll never reconcile with voting for the least-bad and vote Clinton in 2016 or Booker/etc. in 2020. They want Bernie or someone to his left or they'll sit out. They see the Democratic party as offering little more than half-measures that still largely appease modern capitalism and capitalists because, hey, that's who their wealthy donors are. But at the same time, guys like you need to realize you're going to have to reconcile with at least some of that more progressive base who's distrustful of the Democratic establishment and the DNC. What good do you think your attitude does? How many potential progressive voters do you think that sort of vitriol directed at anyone who dares to challenge a Democratic establishment which has sucked for a very long time are turned off by it?

you seem so much more angry at Bernie and anyone left of the garbage establishment than you are at Republicans and Trump

shocking developments so much for all of those "Free Speech Rallies" that definitely weren't just white supremacist rallies

*Republicans continue to elect people like Donald Trump

China gave him a $500m bribe. It was very easy.

Jack, you'd probably like Debt: The First Five Thousand Years

Trumpism is Republicanism

It's a shame Roberts unilaterally rewrote the Medicaid portion of the law with little or no legal basis. Millions have gone without health insurance because of that.

Mnuchin is threatening our European allies with secondary sanctions if they maintain the deal with Iran without us and provide Iran with sanctions relief

NRA out with a forceful defense of *checks notes* school shooters?

seem to weirdly be ignoring a guy who both voted for him in 2016 and thinks this is a dumb stunt over here! what would Sanders running in the D primary and then actually accepting the nomination and running as a D really change as far as concerns about democracy go? is there any doubt he'll win the D primary in a landslide, caucus with the D's and vote heavily in favor of progressive policies and for Dem leadership in the Senate?

First DHS seemingly rejecting the IC's conclusions this morning, now McConnell refusing to comment Republicanism is Trumpism

the new forums software took away the subtitle feature so the "b. hussein obama must be stopped" is lost to time, and it's really what made this thread title imo e: the auto-embeded image it chose is perfect lmao

who gives a crap if he's ~authentic~ I voted for him in 2016 because he had demonstrably better policies than Clinton's garbage centrism

at the same time, why go through that dumb game he's playing to run as an ~independent~? some of that shit he brings on himself with stupid stunts like this.

They describe their methodology on their site. https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/02/us/school-shootings-2018-list-trnd/index.html

https://apnews.com/a3521859cf8d4c199cb9a8567abd2b71