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Did someone suggest we do that?
Is someone here in this thread suggesting that we should force the entire country further to the right and allow a dictator to return to power?
Did you maybe mean to reply to somebody else?
The solution to America's problems won't materialize if we magically criticize Donald Trump and the Republicans hard enough. There's no magic words we're going to say that are going to change those people. Instead, I would suggest that conversations about criticism of the opposition be separated from conversations about criticism of 'our team'.
The Republicans aren't to blame for the faults in Democrats, and the Democrats are not to blame for the faults in Republicans. The major political parties have plenty of faults and some of those faults they have in common, but they are distinctly different in a number of important ways.
The Republican party can't help America improve. It's not just that the system is rigged against the little guy it's that Republicans don't want to help the little guy. They want to squeeze him harder. The cruelty is the point.
The Democratic party can't help America improve. The system is rigged against the little guy, but literally anybody who wants to try and help the little guy has to come here to this party to make that attempt because the party is at least hospitable to the concept.
The stumbling block of the left is not Donald Trump. He's a symptom of our problem. Our problem is people like Nancy Pelosi and Diane Feinstein who are pathologically incapable of cooperating with anyone to the left of Reagan.
You don't get Donald Trump if you promote Bernie. You don't get Donald Trump if you have real primaries, let the people pick the candidates, and create a pipeline to put rising Stars into leadership positions.
I'm really worried that the deadweight at the top of the party is literally willing to sacrifice democracy to fascists rather than give one inch to progressives.