Drum: There's No Simple Way To Unite The Democratic Party
Seriously.
Stop being spastic might help, though.
That is: stop advocating major changes. Be conservative, but with a somewhat liberal inclination. Assure voters that you're going to basically stay the course, but explore a few modest changes that you think are crucial--e.g. tweaking the ACA, making some renewed efforts to decrease poverty, exploring ways to bring some jobs to inner cities and rural communities, possibly raising the top marginal tax rate a bit, back toward historic levels. Maybe directing the DoJ to get us a definitive answer to the questions at the heart of Black Lives Matter, and exploring options like guest-worker status and a path to citizenship for some illegals, while pushing E-Verify and penalties for employers who knowingly hire illegals.
If the Dems allow themselves to (again) become the party of crime, high taxes and illegal immigration, and if they continue to push lunatic PC causes like Title IX extremism and gender studies ideology, they're doomed. And rightly so.
I guess that'll just lose progressives...so it's not really a solution to the problem at hand. But, as always, I think that the center should guide our judgments. Deviating too far from centrist opinion is a good way to look crazy, because it's a good way to be crazy.
Stop being spastic might help, though.
That is: stop advocating major changes. Be conservative, but with a somewhat liberal inclination. Assure voters that you're going to basically stay the course, but explore a few modest changes that you think are crucial--e.g. tweaking the ACA, making some renewed efforts to decrease poverty, exploring ways to bring some jobs to inner cities and rural communities, possibly raising the top marginal tax rate a bit, back toward historic levels. Maybe directing the DoJ to get us a definitive answer to the questions at the heart of Black Lives Matter, and exploring options like guest-worker status and a path to citizenship for some illegals, while pushing E-Verify and penalties for employers who knowingly hire illegals.
If the Dems allow themselves to (again) become the party of crime, high taxes and illegal immigration, and if they continue to push lunatic PC causes like Title IX extremism and gender studies ideology, they're doomed. And rightly so.
I guess that'll just lose progressives...so it's not really a solution to the problem at hand. But, as always, I think that the center should guide our judgments. Deviating too far from centrist opinion is a good way to look crazy, because it's a good way to be crazy.
posted by Winston Smith at
10:00 AM
3 Comments:
There's a reason why Dems don't moderate: if they lose progressives, they become instantly nonviable in virtually every election. And progressives are ruthlessly pulling the party leftwards.
Honestly, I don't really think the problem is with Dem leadership, although they aren't particularly impressive. The Dem base is causing the issues. At least on the Republican side, there is a genuine debate going on regarding Trumpism's merits, although it isn't really well covered. Of course, R leadership is garbage, so they'll probably take the wrong message, but at least they are going through the motions.
Yeah, as a purely strategic question...well, I'm really too biased to have anything to say. I think moving to the left is usually wrong, and so it's hard for me not to see it as disastrous. I typically want them to run to the fat part of the curve...but that's largely because I think that's where the better positions typically are. The left wing of the party currently strikes me as being so insane that I desperately want to cut them loose.
As for the GOP...I can't even see them anymore. Trump is like a big, flaming ball of orange blocking out my view of everything else going on over there.
Yeah I was only speaking on strategic matters. At some point, Dem leadership need to actually, well, lead their base back to sanity. It seems they're far too scared of losing reelection to do that.
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