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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez victory, a warning to the Democratic party establishment.
ladies and gentlemen your message is predictable but unacceptable.
This is not business as usual time. We need more vision and more guts.
You are basically the only opposition party we have to confront the madness at hand. So do your job.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Time to stop the HA Goodman worthy crap.
justhanginon
(3,290 posts)johnp3907
(3,732 posts)stonecutter357
(12,697 posts)still_one
(92,372 posts)analysis based on New York's 14th very blue Congressional District.
Theses attempts to extrapolate sweeping conclusions from one blue district election in New York represents one thing, those New Yorkers in the 14th district.
I guess the implied conclusion some would extrapolate from this is that Cynthia Nixon would be another long shot winner. We will see how that turns out.
It also conveniently ignores the previous special elections that have taken place thus far, and perhaps the most striking event that every Democrat running for Senate in those critical swing states in 2016 lost to the establishment, incumbent, republican, and those Democrats were liberal by any standard.
Time of course will be the final arbitrator, but to draw a sweeping conclusion on one blue district, is such an over-simplification is laughable.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)Take your divisive message elsewhere, cupcake. One district that has changed demographically and had an incumbent who took his win for granted and didn't even show up for the debate. It means nothing larger.
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)took a win for granted..indeed!!!!! - Demographics..she spoke to her constituents...imagine that....
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Hey OP, if you want to send a message to the Democratic party establishment, then you go right ahead and do so.
They aren't here.
If you want to talk to fellow human beings with a range of opinions and perspectives, then try communicating as if you have some humanity in you, instead of issuing orders to a forum of actual human beings.
"You are basically the only opposition party we have"
Very telling use of pronouns. As "you" refers to Democrats, but is distinct from whomever "we" might be.
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)this is NOT A WARNING under any scenario. You need to look at the districts demographics first and foremost
BannonsLiver
(16,439 posts)Lazy, hot take OPs like this are why my moneys on trump winning another term.
fallout87
(819 posts)Just because it worked in a deep blue district... doesn't mean it will work in white suburbia... you know... those places we need to win in order to take the house back? This isn't difficult stuff to comprehend.