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Moderate Democrats are not moderates
Broad and Liberty ^ | 08/25/2025 | Guy Ciarrocchi

Posted on 08/27/2025 5:28:33 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen

The tallest of Snow White’s dwarfs is not tall. The cheapest Tesla is not “cheap.” And, moderate Democrats are not “moderates.” Not by any standard of what we used to mean by moderate.

Pennsylvania’s two leading Democrats — Governor Josh Shapiro and Senator John Fetterman — underscore it. Even if one believes they say moderate things, compared to their fellow Democrats, their votes and records prove they’re not moderates.

Any attempt to label them moderates is an attempt not only to mask their progressive views, it papers over the reality that today’s Democratic Party is built around a left-wing platform, many clicks to the left of what it was just a generation ago.

(Excerpt) Read more at broadandliberty.com ...


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1 posted on 08/27/2025 5:28:33 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen
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To: Kid Shelleen

There is no such thing as a “F” bomb dropping, Swastika carving and painting, Molotov cocktail throwing, old lady stomping “moderate” democrat. Moderates don’t have those “core values”.


2 posted on 08/27/2025 5:32:57 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Vanity Fair. The Official Rag of Far-Left Liberal HATE!)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Headline is correct no need to take time out to read this imo


3 posted on 08/27/2025 5:34:11 AM PDT by albie
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To: Kid Shelleen

Donald Trump was a moderate Democrat.
The Overton Window (or the Hegelian dialectic, if you will) has moved such that what used to be a moderate Democrat is now a MAGA Republican.
The country-club chamber-of-commerce Republicans continue as RINOs.
The Democrats are all left-wing socialists now, descendants of the Henry Wallace wing.


4 posted on 08/27/2025 5:39:12 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Agree. No such thing as a Dem moderate.

They’re either evil (given over to a reprobate mind) or willingly going along with the evil agenda.


5 posted on 08/27/2025 5:39:34 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: Kid Shelleen

Some individuals in government are deceptive, have hidden agendas, have mental issues.


6 posted on 08/27/2025 5:49:10 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: TigerClaws

That too.


7 posted on 08/27/2025 5:49:39 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Moderate to the left is temperament, not based upon policies. Everything is emotion to them.


8 posted on 08/27/2025 5:50:39 AM PDT by TiGuy22
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To: chajin

Before wwii the gop was pro tariff and pro working class. Sounds like today’s MAGA.


9 posted on 08/27/2025 5:58:45 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Kid Shelleen
Labels..... BS as is proven by a simple recourse to.....

Barack Obama, conservative Washington Post, 22 November 2019

10 posted on 08/27/2025 6:02:26 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: TigerClaws
Peaceful Muslims don't jihad, they support jihadists.

Moderate Democrats don't call for riots, defunding the police, and transing kids. They support the Democrats who do those things.

11 posted on 08/27/2025 6:02:32 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: TiGuy22

Most of the leadership of the dems are cold-blooded sociopaths. They only care about their power.

The whip up their base with emotions, bypassing logical thinking.


12 posted on 08/27/2025 6:10:21 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: Tell It Right; kosciusko51

BUMP


13 posted on 08/27/2025 6:16:40 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Dad said until the 1990s, they had moderate Democrats. His state representative in Connecticut was an anti income tax Democrat and he voted for Democrats, too. Some Dems in Connecticut were to the right of Connecticut Republicans.


14 posted on 08/27/2025 6:23:19 AM PDT by DeplorableTrumpSupporter (FKA ConservaTeen)
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To: TigerClaws

Watch how they vote not what they say.


15 posted on 08/27/2025 6:33:11 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: Kid Shelleen
Democrats, their votes and records prove they’re not moderates

That's because RATs don't own their own votes. They are told how to vote.

If they don't obey, they will be primaried by a compliant RAT opponent.

16 posted on 08/27/2025 7:04:18 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Show me a RAT, I'll show you a felon.)
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To: Tell It Right

You lived up to your handle with that one!


17 posted on 08/27/2025 7:12:04 AM PDT by takebackaustin
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To: Kid Shelleen

No such thing, they all support evil in one form or another.


18 posted on 08/27/2025 7:53:05 AM PDT by BigFreakinToad (All she is, is cackles in the wind.)
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To: chajin
The Overton Window (or the Hegelian dialectic, if you will) has moved such that what used to be a moderate Democrat is now a MAGA Republican.

Actually, I'll consider Tulsi Gabbard, Elon Musk, Donald Trump and RFK Jr. to be all moderate Democrats. Or they used to be, anyway.

They are pro-choice. They are probably "green". And they are supportive of some government intervention in the economy.

Anyway, we have one thing in common. We are against the "Deep State". And obviously, we don't want open borders.

Nothing else matters at this point.

19 posted on 08/27/2025 7:56:45 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Kid Shelleen

There are no moderate democrats, they’re all insane.
Killing the unborn, disfiguring & dismembering children, coddling feral “teens”, celebrating perversion, importing those who want to kill us.
This is not your grandpa’s Democrat party anymore.


20 posted on 08/27/2025 8:28:16 AM PDT by Fireone (1.Avoid crowds 2.Head on a swivel 3.Be prepared to protect & defend those around you 4.Avoid crowds)
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