In the year since Trump’s reelection, there has been an outpouring of commentary on the confused state of the Democrats but also the disarray of the political left more broadly.
From Maine to… are searching for leverage against local Republican machines that have grown overconfident and nakedly indifferent to the public interest.” What?
At the local level, please tell me what Republican machine you are talking about. I am not familiar with any. The article, linked, is behind the pay wall.
Maine state government is completely controlled by the democrat party. In the Maine Senate, of the 35 seats, Republicans hold 14. In the House of Representatives, of the 151 seats, Republicans hold 73 seats. The democrat governor is in her second term. Nationally, of the 4 federal elected officials, 1 is a republican.
Maine has just recently become a sanctuary state, the legislature has passed late term abortions up until the day before delivery, boys are legally permitted in girls sports and locker rooms, is ranked low in the business friendly ratings, and at the high end of tax burden.
The neighboring state of New Hampshire, with low taxes and regulations, has steadily increased its average household income to be now about twice as high as Maine. It has decreased its average household poverty rate to have about half as many people in poverty as Maine. Maine is a poor state as a result of policy choices, by the elected officials.
Sorry, but any foothold socialism has gained in American politics says less if anything about its virtues-- current or historic -- and everything about the mounting failures of our once most cherished and trusted institutions; cultural, educational, political and yes, informational.
Yes, two things may be true at once, but not where sociakism, properly undetstood, is concerned.
Any green shoots of a post-woke Left are immediately stomped on by the Wokesters who control the Democratic nominating processes almost everywhere in America. No doubt in private many Democratic activists and aspiring candidates lament the woke/DEI craziness, but they won't say so out loud: their professional or electoral careers will end if they do so. The best hope for Democrats is that the Trump Party keeps avoiding serious issues (e.g. the looming shortfalls in Social Security and Medicare and huge increases in health insurance premiums), that Trump's Fed nominations result in high inflation, and that Trump keeps alienating persuadable voters with his repulsive personality (e.g. his appalling comments after the murders of Rob Reiner and his wife).
Yes, Trump is repulsive, but that doesn't mean I'm going to vote for an anti-Semite socialist/ communist who will reactivate the censorship industrial complex and reopen the borders. As far as I know, Dems haven't proposed any concrete policies about affordability, the debt, or increasing housing. Social Security and Medicare issues are radioactive, Dems would be on any Republican who even broached addressing the hard choices that will need to be made like white on rice. Instead they are insisting on adding Obamacare as a permanent entitlement. What's a voter to do?
What's a voter to do? Great question for which I have no answer. A strong general election candidate would level with voters and tell them that both tax increases of some types and spending reforms are needed - tradeoffs can't be avoided forever. A moderate Democrat would actually dial back the extremes of DEI, transgenderism, and open borders immigration. A moderate Republican would say - like Mitt Romney did recently - that some people will have to pay higher taxes because we can't keep borrowing into infinity. But more moderate types can't get nominated in either major party these days.
Yet nearly forty percent of Americans hold a favorable view of socialism
Was socialism defined or the respondents queried as to what their belief of socialism is prior to the "do you believe question." If not, the 40% can not be used as a valid gauge of socialism support in this country.
From Maine to… are searching for leverage against local Republican machines that have grown overconfident and nakedly indifferent to the public interest.” What?
At the local level, please tell me what Republican machine you are talking about. I am not familiar with any. The article, linked, is behind the pay wall.
Maine state government is completely controlled by the democrat party. In the Maine Senate, of the 35 seats, Republicans hold 14. In the House of Representatives, of the 151 seats, Republicans hold 73 seats. The democrat governor is in her second term. Nationally, of the 4 federal elected officials, 1 is a republican.
Maine has just recently become a sanctuary state, the legislature has passed late term abortions up until the day before delivery, boys are legally permitted in girls sports and locker rooms, is ranked low in the business friendly ratings, and at the high end of tax burden.
The neighboring state of New Hampshire, with low taxes and regulations, has steadily increased its average household income to be now about twice as high as Maine. It has decreased its average household poverty rate to have about half as many people in poverty as Maine. Maine is a poor state as a result of policy choices, by the elected officials.
Sorry, but any foothold socialism has gained in American politics says less if anything about its virtues-- current or historic -- and everything about the mounting failures of our once most cherished and trusted institutions; cultural, educational, political and yes, informational.
Yes, two things may be true at once, but not where sociakism, properly undetstood, is concerned.
Any green shoots of a post-woke Left are immediately stomped on by the Wokesters who control the Democratic nominating processes almost everywhere in America. No doubt in private many Democratic activists and aspiring candidates lament the woke/DEI craziness, but they won't say so out loud: their professional or electoral careers will end if they do so. The best hope for Democrats is that the Trump Party keeps avoiding serious issues (e.g. the looming shortfalls in Social Security and Medicare and huge increases in health insurance premiums), that Trump's Fed nominations result in high inflation, and that Trump keeps alienating persuadable voters with his repulsive personality (e.g. his appalling comments after the murders of Rob Reiner and his wife).
Yes, Trump is repulsive, but that doesn't mean I'm going to vote for an anti-Semite socialist/ communist who will reactivate the censorship industrial complex and reopen the borders. As far as I know, Dems haven't proposed any concrete policies about affordability, the debt, or increasing housing. Social Security and Medicare issues are radioactive, Dems would be on any Republican who even broached addressing the hard choices that will need to be made like white on rice. Instead they are insisting on adding Obamacare as a permanent entitlement. What's a voter to do?
What's a voter to do? Great question for which I have no answer. A strong general election candidate would level with voters and tell them that both tax increases of some types and spending reforms are needed - tradeoffs can't be avoided forever. A moderate Democrat would actually dial back the extremes of DEI, transgenderism, and open borders immigration. A moderate Republican would say - like Mitt Romney did recently - that some people will have to pay higher taxes because we can't keep borrowing into infinity. But more moderate types can't get nominated in either major party these days.
Yet nearly forty percent of Americans hold a favorable view of socialism
Was socialism defined or the respondents queried as to what their belief of socialism is prior to the "do you believe question." If not, the 40% can not be used as a valid gauge of socialism support in this country.