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I find it's important to explain to ordinary Americans what fascism is and why it's bad and why their friendly neighborhood Democratic incumbent of a thousand years is all over it because most of them only get a whitewashed "red versus blue" version of the story.

I don't know that it does much good, especially with the VBNMW crowd, who are often willfully ignorant. But I feel like capitalizing on popular discontent with a broken system is a start.

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FoolishOwl

One of the things that's striking to me about social democrats running for office is that the key to their success is actually campaigning. As in, knocking on doors and going to public gatherings and talking to people.

The Democratic Party has become increasingly hostile to basic campaigning. Its posture is that people are morally obligated to vote for the Democrats.

It's like somehow the lesson they drew from Hillary Clinton's campaigns is that voters should be punished for failing to honor seniority.

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Lorraine Lee

Looking at the absolute ferocity of the moderate Democrats' opposition to the DSA I think they are firmly committed to the antisocialist consensus that has been a firm bipartisan commitment since the time of Truman (arguably since Wilson). They literally think of socialism as an ENEMY ideology, and one equally as extreme, and as hostile to human rights, as fascism. Their commitment to Israel, I think, is largely part of socialism being an absolute non-starter, as Israel was aligned with the west during the Cold War, and perhaps more importantly, the PLO was at least partially funded by Moscow. Joe Biden, in particular, struck me as someone whose brain was literally in the 20th century.
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Lorraine Lee

I'm generally in favor of seniority systems (I consider it part and parcel of being pro-union) but the Democratic Party (and also the Republican Party, interestingly enough) has gone way beyond seniority into gerontocracy. It reminds me of the quick succession of several elderly Soviet premiers between the death of Brezhnev and the final collapse of the Soviet Union. There are other examples in history if one looks. Gerontocracy seems to be a symptom of a moribund political order.
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