...when was the last time the democratic party ran a legitimately progressive platform?..i'm not talking about vacuous platitudes, i'm talking about articulated commitment backed up by tangible, substantive, follow-through changing the nature of established paradigm?..
myrrh
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...the electorate can vote or not vote for whomever the f*ck they see fit: that's the fundamental point of democracy...
...the most-effective way to win those votes is to earn them, not to berate the electorate with a presumption of entitlement...
...the funny counterpart is that when liberals run a full-throated embrace of populism, their greatest threat isn't the surge of new progressive supporters, but establishment democrats desperately afraid of losing conservatives who'd never support them anyway...
...was there one before?..
...you don't win over conservatives by offering light-conservatism, but the democratic party have run the same playbook since 1992...
...i'm not sure that's how one builds a coalition...
...i should clarify: upgrades from windows 7/8 were free...
...windows 10 was free to a lot of people; it's a pretty solid OS and i'd be happy to pay a fair price for ongoing support...
...times have changed: i used to be kicked out of stores for bringing my own bag...
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..."baby steps" they called that corporate handout, fomented by a groundswell of apologists that patience would be rewarded in due course...
sixteen.
f*cking.
years.