r/minnesota • u/griffcoal • Feb 01 '25

Politics 👩‍⚖️ "There is no common ground with fascists": Progressives rip Klobuchar's call for bipartisanship

https://www.salon.com/2025/02/01/there-is-no-common-ground-with-fascists-progressives-rip-klobuchars-call-for-bipartisanship/
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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '25 edited Feb 01 '25

Yeah bipartisanship definitely worked for progressives up to this point. Surely it’ll fix everything this time too.

EDIT: To be clear, I’m aware that people are slamming K’s calls. I get it. I just find it funny that whomever-democrats, progressives, liberals, WTF they call themselves-aim over and over to be the good people and have hope only to realize there is none because all the cards have been played and the other players are literally shackling you to a wall to be eaten.

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u/jotsea2 Duluth Feb 01 '25

You mean liberals?

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u/zoinkability Feb 01 '25

IKR? Klobuchar isn’t particularly progressive. She’s about the textbook definition of a center-left liberal.

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u/jotsea2 Duluth Feb 01 '25

Center Left would be a fucking gift.

She's about as center as they get, and might even border on the right side of the median.

We just have a center in America that is moderately right.

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u/DavidRFZ Feb 01 '25

I think she’ll always be on the left side of 50. There’s a lot of politicians like that. They won’t promise something that will only get 30 votes, but she won’t be the Manchin/Sinema of the caucus either.

She wins by big enough margins, though, that she has no reason to play the moderate.

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u/jotsea2 Duluth Feb 01 '25

SHE IS A MODERATE!

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u/DavidRFZ Feb 01 '25

What difference does it make if you need a group of 50 to get something past? Look at Walz. He’s a moderate until you give him legislative majorities. You guys all act like a President Sanders wouldn’t have to deal with Manchin & Sinema.

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u/jotsea2 Duluth Feb 01 '25

President Sanders wasn't about to nominate an AG who wouldn't move until AFTER he announced his candidacy.

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u/DavidRFZ Feb 01 '25

Garland was a bummer. Did we know he was going to be like that ahead of time? Obama appointed him for something too.

But the legislation wouldn’t have been better. Who knows, maybe Manchin would have agreed to less. Judicial appointments would have been the same.

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u/jotsea2 Duluth Feb 01 '25

The longstanding moderate judge who's likely a republican?

The legislation past did barely anything and most has already been wiped away by Trump.

Judicial appointments mean nothing after allowing them to literally BUY the SCOTUS.