A question for those on the American left who are obsessed with "electability"
We've been through two cycles of Democratic Party debates. This is what we get with a two-party system. Not a single candidate challenges the system whereby the strategy appears to be to try to destroy whoever is on the stage next to you. Isn't that exactly what we result about the tool in the White House?
Pissing matches and horse races aside, now we can't get past the "electable" vs "idealism" debate. In this year's version, you've got 20 candidates who all are within about 20 yards of one another policy-wise. If you're middle of the road, you may be electable. If you're an inch over the double yellow line (say, for instance, you believe the health policy used successfully by every other democracy in the world might work here in the US), you're an idealist.
My point: Here's my argument: you probably think Elizabeth Warren is an idealist and unelectable. And maybe Biden or Pete or some one else is a "realist" and "electable."
Do you think there's a single Trump supporter who would vote for Biden, but not Warren? Seriously? Trump has the religious right, the NRA, and the white supremacists. Please, if you can find a single person out of our 300,000,000 citizens who would leave Trump to vote for any of the 24 current Democratic candidates, I'd like to meet the person (I assume they're going to be medicated).
Here are the 24 we've got. Go through the list yourself and see who you knock out an "unelectable." I'm sure you've already bashed Bernie, and he's an old white guy. So, that's one in your favor. The others? I bet they're women mostly--or people you couldn't identify if you stood next to them in line waiting to vote.
Pissing matches and horse races aside, now we can't get past the "electable" vs "idealism" debate. In this year's version, you've got 20 candidates who all are within about 20 yards of one another policy-wise. If you're middle of the road, you may be electable. If you're an inch over the double yellow line (say, for instance, you believe the health policy used successfully by every other democracy in the world might work here in the US), you're an idealist.
My point: Here's my argument: you probably think Elizabeth Warren is an idealist and unelectable. And maybe Biden or Pete or some one else is a "realist" and "electable."
Do you think there's a single Trump supporter who would vote for Biden, but not Warren? Seriously? Trump has the religious right, the NRA, and the white supremacists. Please, if you can find a single person out of our 300,000,000 citizens who would leave Trump to vote for any of the 24 current Democratic candidates, I'd like to meet the person (I assume they're going to be medicated).
Here are the 24 we've got. Go through the list yourself and see who you knock out an "unelectable." I'm sure you've already bashed Bernie, and he's an old white guy. So, that's one in your favor. The others? I bet they're women mostly--or people you couldn't identify if you stood next to them in line waiting to vote.
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