From remains an unabashed centrist who believes that economic growth, not the economic populism of Sanders or Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is the answer. “It’s important the critical mass in the Democratic party show that it’s the party of opportunity, responsibility and community but not the party of the left,” he insists.
He also argues that the party should not be afraid to talk about law enforcement and developing a system of community policing rather than urging “defund the police”. Likewise it should embrace the idea of legal immigration and a border that is under control. From applauds governors who have made jobs available to people without college degrees.
Oh my fucking God WHY THE EVER LOVING FUCK IS THERE ANOTHER FUCKING INTERVIEW WITH AL FUCKING FROM?!?!?! For fuck’s sake, the last time I heard from this fucking dinosaur was after Hillary Clinton lost in 2016, and they were dragging his old ass out of retirement to explain why actually, despite losing to Donald Trump, moderate centrism was a good strategy. Almost ten years later, and they’re dragging his even-older ass out here to do the same fucking thing? This dipshit’s centrist strategy won one election 32 years ago, and now we’ve got to listen to him prattle on about how Democrats need to be more moderate forever? I mean, Jesus Fucking Christ, its bad enough we have to listen to a Democratic fuckwad explain why this, “win suburban moderates,” strategy is good (even though it has lost to Donald Trump twice now). But for fuck’s sake, is it too much to ask that that they at least find a fuckwad who hasn’t been politically irrelevant for 20 years? Is their really no one else beside this fucking 80 year-old ghoul that can champion this stupid, obviously ineffective strategy? I mean, fucking hell, what the fuck are we even doing here?
Dems picked a throat cancer ridden geriatric instead of a young woman.
They have a fetish for old farts
To be fair, it was Jerry Connolly’s turn. There’s nothing more important than that.
I read the article and it doesn’t really seem that bad. What he says is this:
“Basically what the party needs is some sort of a force – whoever it is – of people who are perceived as future leaders going out and saying: this is what we want this party to stand for. I did it in the 80s and 90s. They can decide what’s appropriate for the 20s and 30s.”
He’s not telling us how he wants the party changed, he’s just calling for a big visible change in the party that will help us win elections again.
Except you’re glossing over the parts where he insists that being centrist and courting moderates, AKA the strategy Democrats have been losing with since 2000, was the path forward:
From remains an unabashed centrist who believes that economic growth, not the economic populism of Sanders or Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is the answer. “It’s important the critical mass in the Democratic party show that it’s the party of opportunity, responsibility and community but not the party of the left,” he insists.
“The Democratic base alone is not enough to win elections, he warns. The party needs to reach moderate voters in the suburbs who “love the compassion” of the Democrats but question whether they have the “toughness to govern” as well.
Every pundit is saying the same stuff he’s saying about working on the party’s communication, finding fresh faces for leadership, winning back the working class, etc., but he’s being dragged back out to push centrism and remind everyone of the one time this strategy payed off in the 90s. I mean, he’s literally saying they should, “not [be] the party of the left,” after Harris got her ass handed to her with a centrist campaign. It’s absurd.
It’s already considered the party of the left by everyone except the left. They might as well lean in, because the centrists aren’t going to vote for them anyway, apparently.
Exactly. They’ve called literally every Democratic candidate in the last 20 years a radical socialist. They might as well run on some socialist positions, since some of them (for example, HEALTHCARE) seem real popular right now.
I get what you’re saying there. I should have read the article closer. Yes, you’re right about that.
I feel u
Ffs. Get rid of the dinosaurs and start over. If the Dems can’t do it, maybe it’s time for a new party.
Yeah. I’m done with the dems. After seeing pelosi win from her hospital bed I knew there was no future for this party. Their only identity now is the “not trump” party, which doesnt work when half the country views him favourably.
The Democrats and Republicans being the only game in town is a consequence of our first-past-the-post voting system. We are stuck with the Dems until we change the system. To refuse to use the Democratic Party, our only to effective political tool, is to refuse to engage meaningfully in politics.
With the recent crushing defeat, and the dems learning NOTHING, they seem content to keep losing. Every vote for them is wasted anyways so might as well toss it to a third party. One that can actually hold a fucking primary.
God the dems piss me off so much.
The issue with that is the US’s first-past-the-post system which results in our two party system. We need to change the system or else a new party will only act as a spoiler.
It can probably still be done if it’s truly grass roots. From the bottom up and not straight up aiming for seats in the senate and for the Oval Office. A third party should start winning seats in small elections in small towns where Democrats rule. Like even a school board election matters. Basically every small election where Democrats win uncontested. They need to push incumbent Democrats out first before trying to flip a red seat.
Once the third party has pushed enough Democrats out of their seats the Democrats have no choice than to form an alliance with the new third party. Which would push the Democratic Party to the left.
That’s basically how the Tea Party and later Maga co-opted the GOP.
Like the green party is doing.
Yes, I am unfortunately aware of this.
CGP Grey rocks
The democratic party is always going to shun leftism because they get a buttload of money every year to turn a blind eye to good reform policies. Money and leftism dont mix, so the money makes sure leftism doesnt stick.
The Democrats are going to follow the people who vote. They get money from corporate donors to be neoliberals. We need a socialist and progressive movement to co-opt the Democratic party. But in the mean time, as long as we still have elections, we can kick fascists out of power and get the Democrats to cater to leftists incrementally.
This isn’t enough to solve climate change or wealth inequality, but until the Democratic party is co-opted the way the Republican party was by MAGA we need to exercise power by voting for the candidates the furthest to the left in elections. Between elections we need grassroots movements to get better candidates.
for the candidates the furthest to the left in elections
I agree, I just wish that wasn’t “senile corporate centrist” every single damn time
We need a socialist and progressive movement to co-opt the Democratic party
People have been trying that for the past 8 years if you haven’t been paying attention.
In political terms, that’s known as just starting. As a much broader example, it was only in 1965 that America got (almost) universal suffrage. Depending on the state, that was a problem since 1776.
You clearly haven’t been paying attention during those eight years if you’re spouting that glassy eyed naïveté. You can try reading the article to get a perspective of what the democratic establishment thinks of “socialist and progressive movement” co-opting the democratic party. Such a movement will only succeed over their dead bodies (politically speaking).
We didn’t get to the idea that little things like slavery were a (nearly) universally bad idea within the lifetime of the first person who proposed the radical idea that owning people and having the right to make them work and have the sole benefits of their labor was an abhorrent idea. It didn’t even happen in the lifetimes of the founders of groups whose basis was the abolition of slavery, and, frankly, it hasn’t yet reached universal acceptance or enforcement in America today. But please, do go on and tell me how these last 8 years of pressure on the Democratic party are equal to the centuries spent reaching that threshold of showing respect for your fellow person.
But please, do go on and tell me how these last 8 years of pressure on the Democratic party are equal to [the abolition of slavery]
That comparison is all you huffing your own fumes. But if you want a civil war comparison here it is: You’re a dough faced democrat who thinks the planter class can be reasoned with.
If you’re an american and you’re calling yourself a socialist you should at least familiarize yourself with Marx and his perspective on the US Civil War, which he wrote extensively about.
I’ve given two examples of what nowadays is considered a fairly obvious statement, namely that people shouldn’t be enslaved and that women are equal to men. One took a war to change, one didn’t. Both took centuries to change. The likeliest reason for one causing a war was the financial factor, which both women’s suffrage and trans rights don’t have. But good on you for focusing on the least relevant element, which wasn’t even a factor for one of those two examples. Frankly, I’m surprised you didn’t notice the fact that I implied that slavery still exists in America.
These are people who would see Franklin D Roosevelt as an extremist.
Instead he was the most consequential and effective president the US has ever had and the right have been unpicking his legacy over the decades since. The Democrats have been complicit in that.
We need progressives, not neoliberals
And socialists too! =)
We need STAR voting, not First Past The Post voting.
Can’t do that without electing radicals.
AOC should be the next head of the party. If not they will fail. No one else in the party now is good enough except Bernie but he’s too old now. Nancy needs to go
the DNC needs to be completely overhauled or thrown out. Bernie would’ve definitely beat Trump but they actively conspired against him, and then when sued for fraud, claimed they never said they’re actually democratic, in spite of the name… and won in court.
the GOP tried to stop Trump as well, and in spite of being complete pieces of shit, they actually are democratic and couldn’t stop him.
but, as they say, the entire system is stupid and designed to fuck us over.
i see this continuing until the collapse of the usa, and probably the entire planet’s ecosystemAOC voted to keep the rail corporation safe from a union strike. We deserve better representation.
Okay. Do you have a better name in mind? I don’t agree with everything AOC has done, but she has been a needed change to the party.
Nancy “the barrow-wight” Pelosi?
AOC sold out to play games with Pelosi. Get a clue
This is exactly what they HAVE been doing for DECADES! What a crock of shit!
Yes but now there’s a fresh dose of “but not like Bernie” to placate the blue donors.
Shit hasn’t come in crocks for over a century. It’s a re-usable refrigerable stackable storage container of shit now.
Hilarious. Why do a less committed version of the same shitty politics as the other party? Who the fuck is this going to win over? Did you miss what happened in November?
I would ask if they were high but that would encourage creativity and awaken any remaining embers of idealism so it can’t be the case.
Just leaving this here for no particular reason https://youtu.be/3cdqQ2BdgOA
His name being “From” makes this difficult to parse.
We’re all here to hear it all from Al From here.
I imagine the confusion has been lifelong and started in kindergarten.
Why doesn’t the party start with being embarrassed for losing to MAGA? Until they can come out and say they are a bunch of failures and admit to the role they’ve played in sending this country down the shitter, the DNC is a sunk cost.
“wE don’t NeEd aN extRemiSt.”
Never gonna happen :(
We need Ben Wikler as the new DNC head or we’re all doomed (again)
We need people with better ideas. Progressive and socialist ideas specifically.
This is the exact kind of fucker that just helped get Trump elected.
Yes, and now they are proudly declaring they aren’t going to put down the shovel. They want to keep digging this hole we’re in.
There is no bottom by the way, they will just keep digging until enough people learn the lessons. If we wait to see how bad it can get it will only get worse.
In an era where people, right and left, are loudly cheering on a guy that allegedly murdered a CEO, this idiot advisor thinks the direction we need to go is defunding Medicare and further privatization of government functions.
This jackass wants Democrats to be a conservative party to respond to the existing conservative party. He literally wants to do the southern strategy again.
SHIVERS [Medium: Success]
Democrat strategist boardroom, 2AM. Three men are pacing around a conference table, their polished leather shoes staining the papers scattered across the dimly lit room. They look stumped, sweat dripping from their reddened foreheads. One of the men stammers half words and stops himself, discarding another idea. The man to his left lights a cigarette.
After an uncomfortable silence, glimmer returns to his eyes, he snaps his fingers and promptly says: “What if we sucked even worse?”
I want to get off of Mr. Jazz Asphodel’s wild ride :(
Disco shitposts are the absolute pinnacle of the art.
Literally “you know who was a great president? Ronald Reagan”.
