Posted on 06/08/2022 1:55:35 PM PDT by devane617
Liberal Democrats known as progressives have never commanded a political majority. Not even close, really. That’s why progressive candidates such as Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren bombed in the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries, while the more centrist (at the time) Joe Biden won the Democratic nomination, then the presidency.
The high point for progressives may have been the Green New Deal, which the newly elected Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York spearheaded in 2019 after her come-from-nowhere upset of a party stalwart. Democrats re-took control of the House that year, and the Green New Deal was a vision for sweeping, egalitarian change in the energy sector and much of the economy. It wasn’t a legislative package, but a manifesto for ending 40 years of crony capitalism.
It's been mostly downhill from there, and the majority of Democrats themselves may have now tired of progressive visions of a mythical Shangri-La. In the June 7 primary elections in California, voters recalled the progressive San Francisco district attorney Chesa Boudin, whom they elected in 2019. Boudin crusaded against “two systems of justice,” one for the wealthy and one for everybody else, and he advocated alternatives to prison for many convicts. San Francisco’s liberal voters endorsed that view a couple years ago, but with worsening crime, homelessness, drug use and untreated mental illness on the city’s streets, they’ve now said, enough of that!
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Cheat even more. No one will really punish them for it. Certainly not those directing and paying for the voter fraud.
Kinda disappointed Shellenberger didn’t have a better showing. I thought he’d have a chance to beat the D
What the heck are they talking about? We are living and dying the the new green deal.
LOL. What blowout? They recalled a commie and will likely elect a new commie at the next election. Meanwhile, all CA has had is a primary election Come talk to me Thanksgiving and we will see how many GOP have been elected in Leftist one party state CA.
The California electorate is not going to elect any GOP. Someone will say “abortion”, or “racism”, or “trans rights”, or “reasonable gun control”, and it will be all commies down the ticket elected to statewide office.
Nothing is going to change. Not until CA is near or beyond collapse.
Did anyone Primary Pelosi?
There’s still a slim chance Democrats could revive some of the BBB elements this year, such as green energy investments, with modest tax hikes to pay for those and to also help reduce yawning budget deficits.
"Modest tax hikes" - oh yes, this would be an excellent time for the Dems to hike taxes. Pleasepleaseplease.
What is happening in Hong Kong right now is what the Democrat Party plans for America.
I was wondering about Shellenberger but I didn’t think he was the same guy who wrote the book Apocalypse Never. It said homeless advocate so I voted for someone else. I voted for Shawn somebody because he was military. I admit to not doing my homework.
Blowout? What blowout? I didn’t see no blowout in corrupt cali...just cause they recalled one communist evil SOB guy they call this a blowout? Didn’t socialist Newsom win his primary? You’d think the bastard would’ve been given the boot! Come November everything will go back to normal...so What am I missing here?
Yes you’re right, but there certainly were some bright spots
in California yesterday.
The Communists didn’t get to this point over night either.
It all starts with coalitions going south. People are
getting fed up with the Leftist ideoligical policies.
Who thought that in 2022 there would be a pretty good
showing of Conservative Black men taking their thoughts
on the road, and having an impact?
I see this as the beginning of a Black migration that I
believe is being undervalued at this point.
And Slim just left town.
SF’s AG’s MOMMA was Weather Underground leader. Shot & killed cops.
I’d think more like Cuba or NK or the “The Great Leap Forward” in China.
The title can only mean the Democrats blew out the Republicans, otherwise it makes no sense at all.
If primary turnout means anything, Trump-hating Republican David Valadao will be defeated in November. The bad news is that he’ll be replaced by a Democrat. Young Kim (incumbent Republican) got only 34% in District 40 though all Republicans combined to take 60% of the vote which means — “ballot harvesting” aside — she should be OK in November.
Long-time incumbent Republican Ken Calvert got only 43.6%. He’s probably in big trouble in November. His district is allegedly R+4 yet Democrats got more votes than Republicans as the numbers stand now.
Michelle Steel and Mike Garcia aren’t safe either, and never were. Steel probably did a little better than expected yesterday, if these numbers hold up once the Democrats finally stop “harvesting” by mid-July; but this is just a primary — California Democrats save the really dirty stuff for November.
“I see this as the beginning of a Black migration that I
believe is being undervalued at this point.”
That sounds like more Blexit BS to me. Like conservatives voting GOP, too damn stupid to realize there was nothing left to lose years ago. We’ve heard the very same pipe dream election after election. It’s not happening.
I can only tell you what I am seeing in social media. I am
observing a lot more Black Conservatism than I used to. Is
it a total flip? Of course not. I will tell you that what
seems like a small amount of change to us, is a very big
deal to the Democrats.
Just now I tried to find some really good figures to address
this issue with you. I couldn’t.
It’s a pain in the ass to try to find something from various
outlets that has been assessed the same way.
I fund some that address eligible voter turnout, better
than who they voted for.
Another variable is this. If enough votes were manufactured
on election day or via the process, how does that serve us
in doing an accurate evaluation post election?
The data that I could find was spotty at best.
Some folks may not think of this, but the tinkering of the
election process in 2020, was probably as much about hiding
the migration of certain groups over to Trump, as much as
overturning the actual vote.
The Leftists are loathe to let it get out there, that an
extra 5% of a demographic group voted for Trump this time
around.
I can’t evaluate what the component of falsified votes was
in 2020? Were most of them for Blacks? Were a significant
enough portion of them from Blacks and Latino groups, enough
to skew the possibility of any real meaning coming from a
careful study on the topic?
Guys like the Hodge Twins are making 20-30 stop sweeps
through the nation. I honestly don’t know if they are
only finding Whites at their events. They may be. Those
two Black sisters who became very popular during the
2016 Trump campaign, make large tours also.
Are these and other Black public figures helping us in
any tangible way? I tend to think so. I’m also seeing
a contingent of lesser names echoing their opinions and
coming away with a pretty decent slant on things.
I could not find something to back up my premise. To be
honest it seemed like you could be closer to the truth,
but the dynamics in play about 2020, don’t lead me to
think the data I’m seeing from the Leftist media is
without some tinkering included.
We used to say we’d have to wait until the election to
see what the real figures were. For right now, that
dynamic is out the window as well.
Again, 2016,18,20 all over again. Sometimes people are just too stupid to break through the lies and propaganda until it’s too late. Look at me. I voted for Mitch McConnell in every general election. Blacks, as a race, are as politically stupid as I was for fifty years. They still have no clue.
I understand that dynamic.
It was during the mid to late 1990s that I realized how
corrupt our own side was.
It was hard coming to terms with.
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