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Good video. Engel has to go. Terrible rep.
To me, this is the way leftists can make the most effective impact/change right now, given the stranglehold of the two parties. Change the Dems, radically. Primary moderates, centrists and conservadems. In so-called safe seats, liberals too. Pull the party waaay left. I don’t think they should ever help Republicans win in the process. So this needs to be done strategically to the extent possible. But I’m also of the belief that if leftists put up candidates who can really connect with voters, they can win anywhere, even in the reddest places. If the candidate has “it,” they can basically go after any Dem, anywhere, cuz they can defeat Republicans in the general too. And they should.
Longterm, I’d love to see leftists run and win without the Dem Party label, and they can in isolated places even now. Build up the critical mass capable to oppose both the Dems and the GOP over time — from the bottom up. But until that’s possible, IMO, they should try to pull the Dems leftward and avoid helping the GOP in the process. Avoid that like the plague.
Ideally, America would have all kinds of truly lefty parties and independent individuals . . . going up against the Dems, who would then be the “conservative” party. I think the GOP should just die, cuz it’s basically the fascist/lunatic wing now. The true “conservative” party is the Dems.
In a democracy, we should have a real choice between the left, right and center. We don’t. It’s basically between the center-right and the further and further right.
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