Democratic (Party) Direction

It's time for every store in America to choose -- is it a grocery store, or is it an auto parts store?

lol at her getting repeatedly ratio'd for her dumb takes on everything but yeah let's never speak of her again

“I myself” = “me and me alone”

I don't click for Barnard alums.

hey my mom went to Barnard! Worked her way through it actually back when that was possible

barnard has tons of great people and some suuuuper active campus leftie types. it just also has entitled rich kids (often overlapping of course), and some of those turn out to be "centrist" (republican) columnists, it's the way of the world

Who was that RW columnist dweeb we all used to dunk on circa 2008?

Steve Bannon

No the female person

Kathryn Jean Lopez?

she's been quiet

McArdle?

Yes KJL

http://bwog.com/2016/12/18/senior-wisdom-daniella-greenbaum/

How can Dems be the party of Bloomberg if he's a Republican

Maybe it's a fool's errand to even respond, but yes, if corruption and political suppression enabled by and in the service of white nationalism completely takes over the GOP, then yes, the Democrats can and will be both the party of Mike Bloomberg and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, I don't even see why this is supposed to be a problem.

yeah, like I said above I'd compare it a bit to a tea party/eric cantor situation where the incumbent might just be so complacent that he is vulnerable to a blindside attack. Also, I hate for this to seem a bit cynical, but Crowley is in a pretty tight spot as a white guy representing the Queens of yore against a young and exceedingly likeable latina woman, like it's just going to be hard for him to find any way to go negative on her without seeming like a POS.

― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Thursday, June 14, 2018 8:17 AM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Is there any polling in the district? I think if you're relying on such a big and dirty machine flush with cash getting 'overwhelmed by surprise', then you're in for a tough surprise.

― Frederik B, Thursday, June 14, 2018 8:21 AM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Sry just need to bask in it a little longer

I mean, I'll paraphrase that, and say that if you want to build a movement to change things, the Intercept are the kind of people you should avoid like the plague. Ocasio-Cortez to me kinda seems like another candidate who confuses virality for movement-building, and I don't know, but they don't seem to have the biggest success rate on the ground.

― Frederik B, Tuesday, June 12, 2018 7:31 AM (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

slow-motion instant replay

The review room in secaucus says it was a mansplain 1. Yeah, look at that right there, it’s clear from that angle.

i am shocked that some hack for Business Insider turns her lonely eyes to Bloomwhine

at least we'd have our second (or third) gay prez tho

If the rumours are true, a gay prez is but a cheeseburger heart attack/indictment without pardon away from the current prez.

xpost so many barnard fans. Ha, that was the only thing I read about the columnist so I ran with it.

xp just remember virality (something quickly becoming immensely popular via word of mouth) is somehow a bad thing for elections

cheese
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it's just a shot away

lol

lol

it may seem like Fred has been oddly quiet since Tuesday, but tbf he often had long gaps in his ilx activity back when he was posting as JoeCrow**KING-OF-QUEENS**

There's a little more behind-the-scenes stuff coming out now.

For all the talk of "expanding the electorate" and reviving the Obama coalition in places like Georgia, @Ocasio2018 appears to be the most air-tight proof of concept for it so far. It was a deliberate part of her strategy, and how she defied Crowley poll showing him up by 36. pic.twitter.com/gPegMCkZGk

— Daniel Marans (@danielmarans) June 28, 2018

Daniella Greenbaum would just like to point out that she has been otm in this thread

good point to pause and note that 42 percent of eligible voters being entirely ignored and is up for grabs. you can win when you quit ignoring this vast untapped resource.

I think there are aspects of her campaign that are and aren’t transferrable to other districts. Abolish ICE isn’t going to be a winner everywhere the way it is in an immigrant heavy district that has been targeted for ICE raids. But finding progressive issues that less likely voters really care about, knocking on their doors, talking to them about it in a clear way, and getting out the vote are what every left-leaning candidate should be doing. And having a good candidate is invaluable.

agreed on all that. any time someone starts in on me about how we have to appeal to Trump voters my answer is don't bother trying, get other voters.

I think if video and audio of crying and confined children keep coming out, Abolish ICE could well become a solid rallying cry just about everywhere

im rooting for Julia Salazar (FKA Julia Carmel on twitter) next

I'm into the trend of objectively hot young relatively-far-left candidates getting run tbh (I also include Kaniela Ing in this). it never hurts!

lol

i know you guys like DSA and stuff but the one thing that makes me uneasy about these candidates is the self-ID ing as 'socialist'. i know ppl think there's a latent socialist majority out there but... idk seems risky to identify that way in america esp if the policies you're running on are not socialism but like, abolishing a govt agency that was didn't exist 15 years ago and having the same healthcare system as Canada. maybe im wrong idk

tbf many of them also support nationalizing industries and whatnot, it's just not a big part of the platform for obvious reasons.

getting people comfortable with socialism as a concept is part of the longer-term strategy of normalizing gulags

identifying with socialism is fine in my book, my hesitation is the -- I don't want to say "rampant," but the not infrequent sexual harassment issues that have come up

idk seems risky to identify that way in america

not really so much anymore, as practically demonstrated by Bernie almost winning

an unfortunate side effect of getting a huge influx of young men joining over an extremely short period of time. I don't consider it an institutional problem (more of an individual-chapter issue) but it's definitely been a jaor hindrance in some cities (xp)

*major hindrance

still makes me anxious

bernie almosta won

"socialism" absolutely not the effective scare tactic it once was and AOC normalizing it is going to be a bigger deal than I anticipated at first

I don't like to drop off the "democratic" in democratic socialism. It should be looked at fresh.

cmon now xp

nothing has been normalised

no normal is the new normal

this was two years ago

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/rampage/wp/2016/02/05/millennials-have-a-higher-opinion-of-socialism-than-of-capitalism/