A moderate's 2020 lament

The Week ^ | February 22, 2020 | Damon Linker

[Hojczyk]

Can this really be all there is?

No, I'm not lamenting the pointlessness of existence. I'm expressing despair over the state of the race to decide on a Democrat to face President Trump in November.

So why do all of them seem so unappealing? So incapable of defeating our corrupt, incompetent, and immoral president? So unworthy of being given a chance to try?

It's possible that I'm the problem. I define myself more as an anti-Republican than a committed Democrat. I'm a centrist whose centrism doesn't quite map onto the policies typically embraced and espoused by the party's moderates. I'm an old-school liberal (less neoliberal than I used to be) on economics; somewhat more conservative on social and cultural issues (I really would like abortion to be safe, legal, and rare); and a critic of American foreign policy, especially since 9/11.

[Alas Babylon!]

Yup. A liar, too.

[Jim Noble]

So why do all of them seem so unappealing? So incapable of defeating our corrupt, incompetent, and immoral president?

Reconsider your premises.

[gibsonguy]

“They’re no longer even hiding“
Until the general that is.

[arthurus]

Corrupt, incompetent, immoral all are merely adjectives with the same meaning i.e. he is not one of “us.” Language on the Left is much simplified, especially as to adverbs and adjectives. All mean either ‘of US’ or ‘of THEM,’ nothing more.

[aquila48]

A moderate is someone with such little conviction that as soon as he has voted, he questions his own vote.

He’s a wind sock flapped around by the breeze. A boat unanchored.

[Leep]

Someone in the middle of the road has twice the chance of getting run over.

[dsc]

This slobbering moron thinks the center lies somewhere between Lenin and Stalin.

[Redcitizen]

Sounds like family!

[SunkenCiv]

Leftist shilll pens an op-ed

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• Swalwell Takes Issue With Russia Meddling in Our Elections... But Not if Bernie Benefits
• The Latest: Sanders defiant about Democratic establishment
• Video: The Identity Of The Masked Protesters Who Were Arrested Outside Trump Rally Is Revealed - They Were Carrying The Red Flag Of Communism
• Cuomo Improves Offer to Federal Government in Attempt to Remove Ban on New Yorkers
• Greyhound to stop allowing Border Patrol agents to conduct immigration checks on buses without warrant
• Greyhound says it will STOP Border Patrol agents without warrants from boarding buses to make immigration checks on passengers
• Empowering Obamacare's Enforcers?
• AG Racine Joins Multistate Lawsuit Challenging Trump Administration Attack on Health Care Access and Reproductive Rights [District of Columbia]
• What Christian conservatives need to know about Mike Bloomberg; Beware His Stances On abortion and religious liberty
• [Catholic Caucus] Chinese 'Catholic' Church Accepts Contraception, Abortion
• Disney-Pixar's "Onward" Will Feature the First Openly LGBTQ Character
• Teachers Union Demands Kids Share Bathroom With Transgender Educators
• Death is Not the Answer [Nick Sutton / Tennessee / death penalty / capital punishment
• Tucker Carlson v the Ruling Class

[GOPJ]

So why do all of them seem so unappealing? So incapable of defeating our corrupt, incompetent, and immoral president? So unworthy of being given a chance to try?

Why Damon Linker? Because these candidates were led to believe they didn't have to 'be' for anything beyond their hatred of President Trump and boilerplate 50 year old ideas they've run on since the 60's... The only exception is Bernie ... he's running on socialist healthcare and destroying the corrupt democrat Establishment. It's why he's winning... Citizens everywhere are sick of corrupt 'elites'...