Beschizza’s OP is supposition too. One of us is admitting they’re speculating based on limited evidence.
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I think it was petulant behavior. Also this was the Nevada state party. I actually think the article/opinion is the same sort of burnt earth petulant response as what happened. But that’s politics in this decade. “Everyone and everything that isn’t what I want is awful.”
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I have no love for the GOP, but did they not issue $1200 checks and then another $600?
I think Rob’s assessment of the Dems is accurate, and it pretty much goes without saying that on virtually any issue the GOP is worse. Criticism of one is not necessarily validation of the other, and vice versa.
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It seems to me that political parties work like that when a new group of leaders come in. As Rob Beschizza adeptly points out, this typical behavior plays right into the hands of the American left because the DSA crew fervently believes that THEY ARE THE ONLY ONES who can bring righteousness to America. Personally, I call bullshit.
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I fixed it quickly. It’s one of those things that always gets me even 20 years in the country. Call them the Demfuck PissDem DemShit BasDems all you like, but call them the “Democrat Party” and there will be words!
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I read that as “As Mom always said regarding Pop (Papa)” and it still works…
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Do you have a fun name for the Nazis?
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Say what you want about the Republican Party, they don’t let a little thing like “completely disagreeing with everything you stand for” get in the way of mindlessly defending someone because they are under the Republican banner.
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Then there are the dudes who announce themselves as “classical liberals”, thinking it does anything else than proclaiming themselves to be just another Libertarian arsehole with delusions of grandeur.
More of these FDR Dems (myself included) are taking a more serious look at MMT, which can be seen as a natural evolution of their Keynesian economic philosophy. So it’s not necessarily “tax and spend” (to use the conservative pejorative) but the reverse.
Also, entitlement programmes are not a bad thing. If anything we need and want more of them. For example, popular support for single-payer universal healthcare similar to that present in other OECD countries always hovers around the 70% mark in U.S. polls.
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neither sounds right to my ear any more. maybe the trick is make both parties possessive:
the republican’s party, the democrat’s party.
of course, it does seem to imply some sort of cake is involved. 
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Quite a few Democratic Socialists in the USA are libertarian socialists, which isn’t really little government as described by Republicans and Libertarians but it’s also not big government.
They’re more like “We are outside the scale that is commonly used, and traditional politics has a problem finding a place for us so they ignored us until we couldn’t be ignored anymore”
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“…not the preferred nomenclature, Dude.”
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I am Jack’s complete lack of surprise.
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Much appreciated Rob.
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It’s the first one on his list!
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I heard they took some of the funds with them when they left too.
This particular unity caucus was only about one-way “unity”. Join us and support our candidate, but we’ll leave if we have to support yours.
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They compromised with more conservative Democrats. And held firm against the QOP. Getting even more progressive bills requires more electoral wins. The focus should be on HR1 to remove systemic suppression and Jim Crow laws.
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Methinks “1956” might be too far back. Even Nixon passed the EPA in 1970.
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please let the door hit you in the ass on the way out
hard
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