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In reply to the discussion: Democratic Socialists or main stream Dems. We've been electing "main streamers" for over 50 years and for [View all]TVguyCards
(87 posts)The Republicans call anything and anyone a "Socialist Communist" who's to the left of Trump himself. For generations they've been doing this, remember what Harry Truman said back in 1952? Remember how they said "Obama is a Commie!" endlessly? Well guess what? Now that there's actual real Socialists here, they don't know WTF to do because their bullshit has completely tanked their credibility except among their own who would never vote for a Democrat to begin with.
Socialism has better favorability than Capitalism among Democrats and Independent voters. There's an entire left flank of voters who have been largely ignored by the party for ages. That's a whole lot of votes right there and we're in an age right now where the boomers are no longer the largest voting bloc. Millennials to Gen Z now are and they favor Socialism.
You said "The Republicans are going beat us like a rented mule over support for socialism" but look what's happened. Losing to fascism twice isn't exactly a winning strategy . It wasn't Socialists that caused that to happen either.
It's time for a different path forward and time that we as a party look ahead because the current strategy of moderate incrementalism is not only not working but dead when our party has just an 18% approval rating, lower than Trump.
You know what's nuts? Thinking the ways of old can win in the year 2026.
We're going left and we are going to kick more Republican fascist ass than you could ever possibly imagine and THAT is a damn good and beautiful thing! ❤

