I sometimes wish you were right, but it's not just my natural aversion to "irrational exuberance" that makes me think that you're not. I'll be a stalwart ally of the Democrats in the struggle to save the country from the far Right, and vote for as many Democrats as it takes to do that. I also agree with the Democrats on a number of polic…
I sometimes wish you were right, but it's not just my natural aversion to "irrational exuberance" that makes me think that you're not. I'll be a stalwart ally of the Democrats in the struggle to save the country from the far Right, and vote for as many Democrats as it takes to do that. I also agree with the Democrats on a number of policy issues, like civil rights, equality, the need to address climate change and structural racism, and infrastructure. But I know who the Democrats are, and there's no place for me in their party.
You use the right word when you say that the "Blue Dog Dem Camp" has been "decimated", because they're being intentionally eliminated, as Pro-Life Democrats already have been. There's no secure home for centrists in the Democratic Party, and eventually there will be none at all. The case of Joe Manchin is instructive. His seat was crucial to the Democrats for the first two years of Biden's administration, and whenever any portion of Biden's program made it into law, it made it because Joe Manchin supported it. Yet, the attacks on him from his own party have been unrelenting and absolutely merciless, and sometimes came from the Administration itself, even while he was saving their bacon. I think that a majority of the current Democratic base and a strong plurality, if not a majority, of Democratic officeholders, would rather lose that West Virginia seat, no matter how much they need it, than see Manchin re-elected. That's a negative for me.
I laud the Democrats for defending the Constitution against Trump, but I understand the limits of that defense. It's more situational than philosophical, more opportunistic than normative. They don't really accept the principle that the Constitution imposes limits on the power of the federal government to act; for me, that's the essence of the Constitution. We can collaborate on policy, but we're on different planets philosophically.
The last fiscally responsible Democratic President was Bill Clinton. It's often said that Joe Biden instinctively gravitates to the center of the Democratic Party, and God bless him, he does that! Right now, the center of the Democratic Party seems to believe that the People's Money is nobody's money, so it should just be handed out to whoever most deserves it, and who deserves it more than people who need it? Ethical questions and even legal questions be damned, because it's RIGHT! And deficits and debt don't really matter. That's where policies like student loan cancellation and the SVB bailout come from. Nope, won't be part of that. To steal from Tim Miller, "not my party". Never will be.
I sometimes wish you were right, but it's not just my natural aversion to "irrational exuberance" that makes me think that you're not. I'll be a stalwart ally of the Democrats in the struggle to save the country from the far Right, and vote for as many Democrats as it takes to do that. I also agree with the Democrats on a number of policy issues, like civil rights, equality, the need to address climate change and structural racism, and infrastructure. But I know who the Democrats are, and there's no place for me in their party.
You use the right word when you say that the "Blue Dog Dem Camp" has been "decimated", because they're being intentionally eliminated, as Pro-Life Democrats already have been. There's no secure home for centrists in the Democratic Party, and eventually there will be none at all. The case of Joe Manchin is instructive. His seat was crucial to the Democrats for the first two years of Biden's administration, and whenever any portion of Biden's program made it into law, it made it because Joe Manchin supported it. Yet, the attacks on him from his own party have been unrelenting and absolutely merciless, and sometimes came from the Administration itself, even while he was saving their bacon. I think that a majority of the current Democratic base and a strong plurality, if not a majority, of Democratic officeholders, would rather lose that West Virginia seat, no matter how much they need it, than see Manchin re-elected. That's a negative for me.
I laud the Democrats for defending the Constitution against Trump, but I understand the limits of that defense. It's more situational than philosophical, more opportunistic than normative. They don't really accept the principle that the Constitution imposes limits on the power of the federal government to act; for me, that's the essence of the Constitution. We can collaborate on policy, but we're on different planets philosophically.
The last fiscally responsible Democratic President was Bill Clinton. It's often said that Joe Biden instinctively gravitates to the center of the Democratic Party, and God bless him, he does that! Right now, the center of the Democratic Party seems to believe that the People's Money is nobody's money, so it should just be handed out to whoever most deserves it, and who deserves it more than people who need it? Ethical questions and even legal questions be damned, because it's RIGHT! And deficits and debt don't really matter. That's where policies like student loan cancellation and the SVB bailout come from. Nope, won't be part of that. To steal from Tim Miller, "not my party". Never will be.