@TonyStark

I’m always amazed that the “Both parties are the same” argument doesn’t fall apart more often when one points out that the Republicans are (constantly) trying to take away voting rights and access, and Democrats are trying to restore and expand voting for everyone.

Go figure.

@textualdeviance @Tengrain I’m voting for the most progressive candidate available. The “burn it down, I’m not voting for Biden” crowd are actually the ones electing the right- what they accuse me of.

Nobody is going to listen to anyone proud of throwing them under the bus. It’s why that wing is completely falling apart.

@TonyStark @Tengrain Exactly. The GOP gave in to their radical fringe and then utterly lost control. All the moderates got swept out in primaries and by 2010, the party was fully in the hands of the Dominionists and Tea Party sovcit weirdos.

Democrats so far haven't pandered to the radicals on our end of the horseshoe, and I think that's helping us survive. We're picking up way more people from the disillusioned right-leaning middle than we would endlessly trying to placate the alt-left.

@textualdeviance @TonyStark @Tengrain

Democrats so far haven't pandered to the radicals on our end of the horseshoe, and I think that's helping us survive.

It's also been long enough, with the Left side of the horseshoe being sidelined while seeing their counterparts getting what they want, that most of them are openly defecting to the other party in hopes of getting a better shot at power than Democrats are willing to give them.

Far Left podcasters, journalists, even a handful of elected officials flirted with it up through 2020. Then 2022, putting them on their heels and empowering the Dem base, came the wholesale defection of people like Greenwald and Rogan and Chapo and Jacobin and such to arguing Dems are worse and Trump is preferable.

Now we have a handful of the elected officials joining in on it publicly, notable exception of AOC who is now an enemy for not.

#USPol #USPolitics #FromTheLeft #Left #Chapo #Jacobin #Democrats #GOP #Election #Horseshoe

@imstilljeremy @textualdeviance @TonyStark

Puritopians are always going to purge their own ranks; it’s like the rule that "Conservatism can never fail it can only be failed."

I have not seen it so much on the left, but I think that’s what you are getting at.

@Tengrain @textualdeviance @TonyStark

A really good example would be the entire RFK and Cornell West campaigns and all associated hangers-on, as a spectrum from the parts of the Left horseshoe who are now openly far right (RFK's campaign) and which just prefer the right to the Democrats right now (Cornell West's).

Both are fairly openly coordinating with far right funding, logistical support, and media and focusing on swing states. Now, it looks like RFK's campaign got too much in bed with the GOP to keep pulling Dems, which is why they started coordinating with West too.

#CornelWest #RFKJr #RFK #Election #Elections #GOP #FromTheLeft #horseshoe #FarRight #Fascism #Fascist