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  1. Mojo Hand
    No it doesn't. There are plenty of resources. They're just concentrated among a tiny fraction of people.
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    There's a distinction between political ideology and the reasons why someone adopts a political ideology. It may be that many centrists are as you describe, just as there are many "conservatives" who adopt that ideology simply because it preserves their personal privilege in some way (wealth, race, class, etc.). But that doesn't mean there aren't people who actually do believe in centrism or conservativism (though the latter has proven to be very few in number).
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    How do you figure? (I don't agree with Hugo that centrism has no ideology of its own.)
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    No, too stupid.
  5. Mojo Hand
    Your Trumpiness is more embarrassing.
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    Believing in those things doesn't mean that you're hoodwinked. But I think it's a mistake to think that you can achieve those things by voting for centrist Democrats. We have to go way left before you can move things back to the center. All of the things on your list have either stayed the same or gotten worse over the last 30 years of Dem centrism. Obamacare is the only bit of breakthrough, but it took the chance event of 60 Dem votes in the senate for a tiny passing window, so it was Dems negotiating with other Dems. Even then, because of centrist Dems like Blanche Lincoln, it's full of shittiness, led to 6 years of losing elections, and is on the verge of being struck down. Vote way left. Get centrist compromises at worst, progressive policies at best. If things go too far left for you, vote more to the right at that point to rein things back. That's the only way our system works.
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    Policies like M4A, college tuition and student loan help, universal child care, and the rest of the proposals from Warren and Sanders are for families, the working class, and the middle class. Far more so than the policies of centrists and Republicans.
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    A compromise is generally somewhere in the middle. To produce a centrist compromise, you either need two roughly centrist sides or two further extremes. A compromise between a centrist and extreme right-wingers doesn't result in centrism, but rather right-wing policies. That's been exactly the problem over the last 30 years.
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    Seriously. Shake off your conditioning, people, and take another look at the last 30 years. What has third way/New Democrat moderation done for the party or the country? What left-of-center success is there to point to? Now look at the Republican swing to the far right over the last 30 years. They've been massively successful at getting numerous right-wing priorities enacted. Moderation = fail. Our country has a two-party system that produces left-of-center moderation over long periods of time by the conflict between the two sides. If one side moderates, it pushes everything towards the other extreme. That's just how it's proven to work time and time again.
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    Good, I hope GOP donors waste as much of their money as possible trying to win that district.
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    I don't agree with any aspect of your premise. Of the candidates who matter, Biden and Mayor Pete haven't really moved to the left, Harris is so vague as to be wherever she wants to say she was later, and Sanders and Warren are where they've always been. None of them will have to backtrack to win the general except Harris, on account of her taking both sides of every issue. And the success of the candidates on the left so far is a great thing for the Dems' chances in the general, should one of them be the nominee.
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    Not that I heard. From what I saw, the judge found he was a danger to the public and a flight risk, given all the things that have come out in the last few days, and that no conditions of release could protect the public or assure his appearance.
  13. Mojo Hand
    Yes decision. Bail was denied yesterday. He may never be free again.
  14. Mojo Hand
    AOC is proving herself to be one of the best questioners in Congress. She clearly does her homework.
  15. Mojo Hand
    On the bright side, it's the weekend, so Doocy and Kilmeade won't be in the situation room.
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    Hopefully Hannity and Tucker make the right call on our next move.
  18. Mojo Hand
    One woman, but how many girls?
  19. Mojo Hand
    She's really hurt by the bar on foreign donations.
  20. Mojo Hand
    Grateful Dead: Anthem of the Sun and American Beauty on Amazon Prime is must-watch. Great doc on those albums and Phil and Bobby isolating individual tracks for discussion.
  21. Mojo Hand
    Says a dude born on third base whose family bailed him out of multiple bankruptcies.
  22. Mojo Hand
    No, you're thinking of McSally. Sinema is the Dem who beat her.
  23. Mojo Hand
    The frat one is too long and unwieldy, but I don't see why anyone would have a problem with some of the other changes. It doesn't offend me to leave them as is, but I'd support similar changes where I live. And I see as much snowflakery and virtue signaling the other way from those who are freaking out about this as I do from those who are actually offended by the gender-based words.
  24. Mojo Hand
    "We're not against legal immigration, just those who break the law!"
  25. Mojo Hand
    Haha, this fucking idiot thinks he's zinging the journalist who got him to talk through flattery, when it just shows what an easily manipulable fool Trump is. Also, the golf blast could not be less self-aware.

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