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Lean left: is America ready for a wave of Bernie Sanders-inspired socialists?
Yahoo ^ | 10/26/18 | Adam Gabbatt

Posted on 10/28/2018 5:24:59 PM PDT by Libloather

A slew of leftwing Democrats are running in the midterms – but some believe it’s too soon for a full-scale embrace of progressive ideas

In the midst of these bitterly contested, hyper-partisan midterm elections, one of the most interesting subplots is how the left-leaning, Bernie Sanders-inspired Democrats will fare – and what that could mean for the future of US politics.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s congressional victory in New York in June was a high-water mark for the left. Backed by Sanders and the Democratic Socialists of America, Ocasio-Cortez crushed the Democratic insider Joe Crowley in what some heralded as a socialist dawn.

But since then some of the other Democratic candidates running on progressive platforms have faltered, falling to more traditional centrists. Which raises the question: is the US ready for a wave of democratic socialism?

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Crush 'em all.
1 posted on 10/28/2018 5:24:59 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather
A slew of leftwing Democrats are running in the midterms – but some believe it’s too soon for a full-scale embrace of progressive ideas

My be sooner than you think when the anti-Christ takes over.

2 posted on 10/28/2018 5:30:40 PM PDT by Maudeen (http://ThereIsHopeinJesus.com/)
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To: Libloather

The inspiration for Bernie and other socialists was from Eugene V. Debs.


3 posted on 10/28/2018 5:33:05 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Liberals have become moralistic, dogmatic, sententious, self-righteous, pinch-faced prudes.)
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4 posted on 10/28/2018 5:35:46 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Liberals have become moralistic, dogmatic, sententious, self-righteous, pinch-faced prudes.)
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To: Libloather

They have been at least mostly. Ocasio-Cortes inspired candidates all lost. Does not mean the D’s that won the primary are any better. Means that they lost.


5 posted on 10/28/2018 5:40:25 PM PDT by Mozilla (Truth Is Stranger than Fiction)
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To: Libloather

At this point I dislike all D’s. So voting against them all.


6 posted on 10/28/2018 5:41:10 PM PDT by Mozilla (Truth Is Stranger than Fiction)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

Absolutely. I killed off a thread at a lefty site Mediatie by word for word using three sources Britannica, Conservapedia and difference between explaining what socialism was. Only got a reply about how I copied and pasted the post. Nobody replied to the article after that. These moonbats do not know what socialism is.


7 posted on 10/28/2018 5:43:59 PM PDT by Mozilla (Truth Is Stranger than Fiction)
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To: Mozilla

The site was Mediaite rather.


8 posted on 10/28/2018 5:44:56 PM PDT by Mozilla (Truth Is Stranger than Fiction)
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To: Libloather

I’m glad in I’m my 60’s. Training my kids to fight.


9 posted on 10/28/2018 5:49:13 PM PDT by lizma2
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To: Libloather

Liberal districts are going more socialist (another word for liberal these days.) The rest of the country is running in horror from the @&#@ show they’ve created within cities.


10 posted on 10/28/2018 5:55:37 PM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
Who will lead America best, a story in two pictures.  Click each image to see full screen.


11 posted on 10/28/2018 6:05:47 PM PDT by poconopundit
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To: Libloather

Once you break the eggs you cant fix them. Ask Humpity Dumpity.


12 posted on 10/28/2018 6:06:47 PM PDT by Brilliant
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It’s tough to beat an incumbent in a primary. How many incumbents actually lose in the primary?

Ocasio-Cortez beat Crowley by about 4k votes out of 30k cast (57-43%)...hardly a crushing defeat.

It’s somewhat surprising that he didn’t mention Pressley beating Capuano. Turnout was much heavier here (60k votes to 42k), 58.5-41.3%.


13 posted on 10/28/2018 6:07:12 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

Leftists hate it when I point out that VZ is end-stage Democratic Socialism on full display. Socialism always leads to shortages of 3 things - breakfast, lunch, and dinner.


14 posted on 10/28/2018 6:25:03 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Libloather

Whenever I read, Left-leaning...

I think, Left-falling-down-drunk.


15 posted on 10/28/2018 6:43:08 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: Mozilla

Ocasio-Cortez’s victory, being called the “high tide” of the socialist/New Left movement, is similar to the “high tide” that occurs when a sewage plant overflows its tanks and floods the nearby rivers and bays.

It temporarily causes a “high tide of shit and other garbage”, stinks for a while, pollutes the water, plants and wildlife, but eventually recedes back into its holding cage. Then life goes back to normal.

“Ocasio-Cortez-Garbage, the High Tide of Socialism” in America. Coming as a Democrat election choice, soon. Pull the RIGHT lever and send it back to the sewage plant it came from.

The Democrat cesspool swamp is filled up enough without having a need for any more crap being added to it. Time to drain the swamp on Nov. 6th. Pull the Plug on Crap. Vote Republican, the party of the Roto-Rooter Man, Trump.


16 posted on 10/28/2018 8:42:38 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Libloather

Tonight, Levin pointed out that a bunch of socialists are running right now. I’m assuming the November 6 Red Tsunami will blow them all away.


17 posted on 10/29/2018 12:36:24 AM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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