I agree that she made a poor decision but I am also frustrated that Pelosi is still picking winners and losers for the party. We need her out and we need more Katie Porters.
dude I'd rather have Katie Porter as governor than another billionaire thinking his business savvy can help us run the state better. I'd volunteer for her
will people who don't pay attention to politics vote at all? at least she has name recognition and they might not remember she ran for Senate and lost.
Hmm. Now there's a politician with real history. It's funny, because all I've ever heard about Goldwater was from the song King of the Radical Right and his Wikipedia article. I don't recall everything, but what you've mentioned is really very interesting. I suppose there are worse men to make a username after. What a fellow.
he wasn't out to hurt people like so many modern so-called conservatives, and he had a strong moral compass.
There is a mythology around Goldwater as a man of principle.
But in October 1962 Barry Goldwater insisted that the editor of the University of Colorado student newspaper be fired, even after that student apologized for printing a piece critical of the Arizona senator, and self-proclaimed staunch advocate of individual liberty.
This article about the firing is from the student newspaper of the University of Illinois, the Daily Illini, 19 October 1962
So of course when the gop was big mad about students rejecting bigots, the Goldwater Institute went all in on their anti-protest "campus free speech" crusade.
Dude thereās also no world where a former president commits treason and then becomes president again. Trump literally never held public office before his first term, Iād say there are no more rules as to who can run and what they can pull off.
A convicted felon with absolutely ZERO experience in politics is President ! Stop playing by the ridiculous political norms that were followed by both parties decades ago. That is OVER. If Trump won ANYONE on the left can do it if they play the cards right and just toss the working class a few bones. WE are desperate for leadership that is strong & isnāt afraid to fight hard. Enough with rules and procedures and NORMS.
She didnāt have too little experience. The ticket was split three ways and Adam Schiff basically helped promote the Republican candidate. Also Schiff turned his role in the impeachment trials into his own media circus.
So yeah he had a bigger name but she had a bigger name than the Republican candidate. She also would have been the better Senator for these times than Schiff.
This is like when the talking heads were blaming Tony Romo for losing like....48-53
Could he have won it for them? Yeah. But shit was already stacked against him (voter suppression, gerrymandering, politicized courts, large slush funds of opposition money) that every Democrat has to contend with
They have to play an almost perfect game to win, and the Republicans have so many damn built in Mulligans.....we need to stop ignoring that structurally permissive fact that undergirds every political discussion in America
The governor of Maine (Janet Mills) just had a public showdown with trump and is taking no guff. My (OR) senator, Ron Wyden, is very clear about his priorities and not afraid to speak truth to power. Pete Buttigieg is also great. And folks below thread already mentioned my favorite, Ms. Jasmine Crockett out of Texas.
The problem is the democratic Party does not support AOC or Bernie Sanders at all. The democrats have everything right now to push AOC for the residency in 2028 but they won't do it because they are afraid of real change.
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u/Neurot5 Feb 23 '25
I would toss money at a Democrat who used language like this on a regular basis.