I’m completely on the same page here, to clarify I’m a leftist, but a registered Democrat who votes left in the primaries but down the Democrat line in the general election.
And I totally agree it’s very lofty, that’s why I think more realistic short term goals are to push for things like internal party reforms (e.g., why the feel haven’t we had a real primary since Obama’s first election? Why are the establishment elites trying over and over to recreate the Obama coalition from the top down when the Obama coalition was an organic group that came together despite the establishment Democrats trying to smother it?) and prohibiting or restricting voting stock for non-employee-shareholders.
Anyway, glad we’re actually mostly on the same page. I think a lot of people could get behind things like this, even if they would never back the more lofty ideas I threw out there.
Agreed! And fwiw I’m “a registered Democrat who votes left in the primaries but down the Democrat line in the general election” too, I just don’t use the term “leftist” because, well, I don’t know what it means to people around me. That is, it changes depending on social context I guess.
Anyway, thanks for spelling it out, I think if we could get this in some kind of metaphorical Sidebar for progressives we’d get more traction.
I’m completely on the same page here, to clarify I’m a leftist, but a registered Democrat who votes left in the primaries but down the Democrat line in the general election.
And I totally agree it’s very lofty, that’s why I think more realistic short term goals are to push for things like internal party reforms (e.g., why the feel haven’t we had a real primary since Obama’s first election? Why are the establishment elites trying over and over to recreate the Obama coalition from the top down when the Obama coalition was an organic group that came together despite the establishment Democrats trying to smother it?) and prohibiting or restricting voting stock for non-employee-shareholders.
Anyway, glad we’re actually mostly on the same page. I think a lot of people could get behind things like this, even if they would never back the more lofty ideas I threw out there.
Agreed! And fwiw I’m “a registered Democrat who votes left in the primaries but down the Democrat line in the general election” too, I just don’t use the term “leftist” because, well, I don’t know what it means to people around me. That is, it changes depending on social context I guess.
Anyway, thanks for spelling it out, I think if we could get this in some kind of metaphorical Sidebar for progressives we’d get more traction.