Since 2016, Democrats have operationally withdrawn from rural America. No party can win nationally without rural voters, and progressive economics have plenty to offer, if only the party would embrace them.

Since 2016, Democrats have operationally withdrawn from rural America. No party can win nationally without rural voters, and progressive economics have plenty to offer, if only the party would embrace them.

  • BrikoX@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
    211·
    4 days ago

    You calling Kristen Sinema and Joe Manchin “centrists” just shows you have no idea what you are talking about. They are 100% corporate Democrats who took millions from oil or pharmaceuticals lobby to kill bills that were unfairable to them. Hence Build Back Better and Medicaid prescription drug negotionations being neutered into nothing. But you continue living in your denial bubble.

    John Fetterman voted with Republicans more than he voted with Democrats. He’s a a simple sellout to a foreign country and primarify funded by The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). He should be treated as a traitor.

    I and 70%+ of the country prefer Tim Walz style rural vision.

    With a 1 seat majority in Minnesota he did:

    • universal free school meals
    • legal weed
    • carbon free electricity by 2040
    • tax rebates for the working class up to $1,300 (making under $150k per year)
    • 12 weeks paid family leave
    • 12 weeks paid sick leave
    • banned conversion therapy
    • red flag laws for guns
    • universal background checks for guns
    • automatic voter registration
    • free public college (under $80k)
    • ban on PFAS (forever chemicals)
    • $2.2 billion increase in k-12 school funding
    • sectoral bargaining for nursing home worker
    • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
      410·
      4 days ago

      You calling Kristen Sinema and Joe Manchin “centrists” just shows you have no idea what you are talking about. They are 100% corporate Democrats who took millions from oil or pharmaceuticals lobby to kill bills that were unfairable to them

      Yeah. centrists.

      John Fetterman voted with Republicans more than he voted with Democrats. He’s a a simple sellout to a foreign country and primarify funded by The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). He should be treated as a traitor.

      Yeah. A centrist.

      • BrikoX@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
        61·
        4 days ago

        You clearly have no understanding of what centrist means. Neither of them represent the middle of the country. Even going by party affiliation and definition used by US corporate media, the center of two right wing parties is still right wing.

        • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
          48·
          4 days ago

          You clearly have no understanding of what centrist means.

          Just because you have to suddenly pretend that they’re not the most emblematic members of your wing of the party, that doesn’t mean you have to gaslight.

          Neither of them represent the middle of the country.

          They represent the right flank of the democratic party. They’re centrists.

          • ExtantHuman@lemm.ee
            51·
            4 days ago

            The right flank of the Democratic party is just right wing. Not central. Their policy stances are not middle of the road, they’re self enriching and aligned withbig pharma and a coal industries

              • ExtantHuman@lemm.ee
                32·
                4 days ago

                They don’t. But being the squeaky wheel in one party in a two party system where the other party is hellbent on blocking anything their opposition wants, regardless of what it is, gives you a lot of leverage.

                • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  34·
                  4 days ago

                  If they don’t, did Build Back Better just kill itself, one piece at a time, over the course of months?

      • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
        62·
        4 days ago

        they really wernt centrists, manchin was a republican that couldnt get elected as one so he switched parties to D, and kirsten was very similar.