2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Celebrating victory [View all]gcomeau
(5,764 posts)You know perfectly fucking well you were goading.
And what progressives want is for the Democratic party to STOP MOVING RIGHT. Voting for them every time they do move right is a little counter productive to that goal don't you think? You can talk about education and healthcare and regulation all you want. The more right the Democratic party goes the more those all get eroded. At a certain point arguing that the right course is always to choose the least destructive of the immediate options while ignoring the long term trajectory it places you on wears thin.
At some point you all need to wake up and realize you're so caught up in the GOP/DEM horse race that you've lost site of the fact that the race track is only pointing one damn direction.
FFS, just between 2008 and 2016 this is what has happened:
http://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2008
http://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2016
And you just want everyone to happily and indefinitely continue the ride in blissful ignorance.