The surprising candor of The Nation article posted by creekster reminds us of the divide in the Democratic party. Believe it or not, not all democrats actually believe that the federal police force and prosecution apparatus should be deployed to criminalize politics unpopular with those who control the mechanisms of such awesome state power; that capitalism is a bad word, that there is any way other than capitalism to create value necessary to pay for homeless shelters, upgrading subway systems, etc.; that intersectionality cred should be the sole criteria for leadership; that America's history is nothing more than a sordid narrative of mass murder and exploitation of people of color and women and the environment by greedy white males; that climate change mandates draconian and ubiquitous government control of our economy and a "moral" way out of fossil fuels rather than technological and pragmatic solutions in a forward looking vector, regardless of the resulting scale of human suffering and death; that socialism (in contrast to capitalism) is a good thing that need not atone for any mass murders and other crimes committed in its name nor account for its repeated failures to solve the economic problem, leading to a scale of human suffering and death unknown in human history before or since; that free speech was a wrong turn taken by the founders of the United States because the masses must be herded like cattle; that humans have regressed to now their lowest point ever, regardless of virtual elimination of starvation, big wars, and global epidemics; or that the Jews are to blame for the Middle East's problems and hold the Western World in thrall of Jewish money.
No, not every Democrat believes these things, which is why Biden raised more money the first 24 hours after he announced than BS or any other candidate. And the struggle for control of this narrative, literally the soul of the left, is what we'll see played out here in the coming 18 months. I wish the there was a stronger candidate than Biden to face Mordor.
Here is the referenced article:
https://www.chronicle.com/article/Is...Putin-s/241777
No, not every Democrat believes these things, which is why Biden raised more money the first 24 hours after he announced than BS or any other candidate. And the struggle for control of this narrative, literally the soul of the left, is what we'll see played out here in the coming 18 months. I wish the there was a stronger candidate than Biden to face Mordor.
Here is the referenced article:
https://www.chronicle.com/article/Is...Putin-s/241777
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