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[–] [email protected] 44 points 6 hours ago (5 children)

Local opinion piece:

https://www.startribune.com/brehm-democrats-have-themselves-to-blame-for-trumps-election/601176736

I read it because of the title, but it's just some shithead that wants them to move further right:

This red wave wasn’t as much about embracing Donald Trump as it was repudiating far-left progressivism.

[...], and then foisted upon us an equally unqualified and unpalatable hard left alternative.

They are already creating the groundwork for sucking more corporate dick.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 30 minutes ago

Wait, there was nothing progressive about this campaign except for paying a little lip service to legalizing weed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Holy shit. They really think Harris was "far left"??

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

How can this be a rejection of the far left when Harris campaigned as a moderate (e.g. Cheney)? If republican voters are going to think Democrats are communist regardless of how moderate the Democrats are, maybe moderating isn't a good strategy. If the only choice is between right-wing and lite right-wing, right-wing voters will choose the real thing. Even then, Trumpists will still call democrats communists.

Many left polices are popular when they aren't labelled as left

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Thats the fun part, people consider dems "far left" because...... Reasons, I guess? This country is so far right just the idea of building more housing counts as communist.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

True. Even in California, the affordable housing measure and rent control measures both failed.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

Reminds me of that joke about how there are only two races: White, and political. It's disheartening to see folks (some here on Lemmy) confusing listening to the concerns of brown-skinned people with leftism. The Arab-Americans in Michigan, for a relevant example, are just people with a range of political opinions like the rest of us.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 hours ago

No war but class war, buddy

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago

Hardly surprising coming from the Star Trib these days... I knew it was bad when they refused to even endorse a candidate.