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Does this guy really think shouting at people and calling them names is how you convince them to change their mind about political strategy? His rudeness is matched only by his total inability to defend his position with logic or evidence.
This is why the Democrats keep losing. Anyone who questions their obviously failed centrist bullshit is a Russian troll, or whatever other story they can tell themselves to justify sticking their fingers in their ears and chanting ya ya ya.
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I mean, look at the trend in Democrat politics over the last half a century;
1977-81: Ford and Carter. For all their failings, these guys were social democrats, not unlike Sanders or Warren
1981-93: Reagan and Bush Snr drag the US into Milton Friedman's neoliberal nightmare
1993-2001: Instead of rolling back GoP neoliberalism, Clinton treats it as the new normal
2001-2009: Dubya brings the neocons to the centre of US politics
2009-2017: Obama leaves them there.
2017-2021: Drumpf
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2021-25: Biden broke the pattern, but only because 2016 made it very clear that the US left was not going to vote for a neocon lite administration again.
Biden himself was the least worst candidate from the neocon wing of the Dems. See his policy on genocide in Gaza as an example. But his policy platform and administration drew significantly on the left of the party. Which is why he was able to win.
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2020: The Harris campaign was a repeat of the failings of the 2016 Clinton campaign. They tried to tack back to a perceived "centre" circa Obama, as if the preceding two elections had never happened.
This isn't even where the centre is anymore, to the degree that formulation still makes sense. It's certainly wasn't acceptable to a left that had finally got *something* out of electoral politics for the first time in decades.
But died-in-the-wool Dems seem perpetually unable to see this.
I also want to comment on the 'not USAmerican therefore not allowed to comment on US politics' trope. For a start, I notice it only ever comes out when I'm disagreeing with them, and they're struggling to back up the assumptions they've confidently stated as facts.
Secondly, the US styles its head of state as the "leader of the free world". So they're our leader too, but we can't freely comment on the politics that produces them? Yeah, nah.
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@strypey In Belgium cant even call out the fact that a tram stop needs 20 people to check for tickets (10 ticket inspectors with the word 'security' on their back and 10 police officers to protect these vampires).
When I point out that its likely 500 EUR an hour to find somebody without a 2 EUR ticket Im reminded that Im a foreigner.
This procedure is not needed on trains - seemingly 1 conductor is worth 20 of them.
I should point out that the police are genuinely embarrassed to be doing this.