Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: My god the BASHING of actual Democrats here today is FUCKING AMAZING [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)And that's scary.
All our best, most ethical Democrats are now constantly attacked for doing the very things they're sent to Washington to do, to work with everyone our nation sends to represent them to create solutions that all can agree on.
The bills quietly passed through bipartisan cooperation to keep the roads open, school lunches funded, and lights on are claimed as proof that most Democrats are really conservatives and just as bad as Republicans. But the absurdly unbelievable is believed by those who've become subverted.
To anti-democracy agitators on both left and right, cooperation is now proof of corruption. And that's extremism no matter which side it's coming from.
Ocasio-Cortez can actually be cheered by some for saying most congressional Democrats who've always worked in and for progressive government shouldn't be allowed in our progressive caucus. That's crazy. Only extremists would only allow themselves: It's practically the definition of extremism, and it's the very antithesis of representative democracy.
Amy Klobuchar is villified for working with conservative senators to do what the people who elected her to Washington sent her for. Only extremists could see a democratically elected congressman serving as her constituents wish and to the best of her ability as betrayal instead of duty.
When turning on and fighting democracy itself is seen as virtue, that is anti-democracy extremism.
Very to the point, our intelligence services say Russia is trying to grow and join left wing extremists with the conservative right to take down our government. Ironic that cooperation is required, but it is a proven method of destroying democracies so it's happening while we witness.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden