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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Let's just stop it there.....
He did NOT win..and anybody paying attention knows this was a STOLEN election....
Cheat even more. No one will really punish them for it.They won't even cover it, report on it or admit it...Fox News is the leader in those fields.
I agree with the others that this is no big shakes; no harbinger of good thing dot come. It is of some interest that in all six executive races, a Republican actually made it through the jungle primary and into the November ballot. But, when you look at the total votes garnered by the rats, there’s little cause for optimism we could actually carry any of those offices in November
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