GiddyGap@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 10 months agoAmerica's deepest partisan divides are getting deeperwww.axios.comexternal-linkmessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up145arrow-down13cross-posted to: news@kbin.social
arrow-up142arrow-down1external-linkAmerica's deepest partisan divides are getting deeperwww.axios.comGiddyGap@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 10 months agomessage-square15fedilinkcross-posted to: news@kbin.social
minus-squareAfricanExpansionistlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·10 months agoDemocrats aren’t really extreme in any way… If anything, we need them to go as crazy to the left as Republicans have in their direction. Instead, they just let Republicans drag conversation ever rightward
minus-squaretallwookie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agothere’s plenty of things that many see as extremism in the Democratic platform.
minus-squareAfricanExpansionistlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoThe Democratic platform is not actually a thing that the party uses or strives to achieve. Also, just because “many” think something is extreme doesn’t make it so. What “extreme” legislation has the party worked hard to enact since 2010?
Democrats aren’t really extreme in any way… If anything, we need them to go as crazy to the left as Republicans have in their direction. Instead, they just let Republicans drag conversation ever rightward
there’s plenty of things that many see as extremism in the Democratic platform.
The Democratic platform is not actually a thing that the party uses or strives to achieve.
Also, just because “many” think something is extreme doesn’t make it so.
What “extreme” legislation has the party worked hard to enact since 2010?