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From the article:
"Getting elected because the other guy or gal is so abhorrent that even the crazies couldnt bring themselves to vote for them is not the same as getting elected because you managed to sell your agenda."
And therein lies the problem. Democrats have no agenda, and they have no agenda because they believe the myth that the Partys neoliberals, Krugman, Fareed Zakara, and many others of the elite media are spewing: that America is a closely divided nation that is center-right politically.
To read the rest of this very provocative piece:
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/09/19/still-getting-it-wrong-how-media-pundits-keep-steering-democrats-shoals
uponit7771
(90,347 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Beginning with the persistent fiction that the US media is liberal. A fiction that persists in spite of all of the evidence.
JHan
(10,173 posts)There was a controversial book "Democracy in Chains" which is worth a read, explaining a bit about Neoliberalism. I am TIRED of reading the smear from authors with an axe to grind against Liberals with a different view to theirs.
Dismissing someone as "neo-liberal" without honestly engaging their views is an attempt to shut debate down.
FSogol
(45,491 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,322 posts)The second time, his text calls it a Pew poll, so maybe he meant to link to a Pew one. But the Gallup poll, rather than showing "the majority of independents lean Democrat" as he claims, actually says "an average of 17% of Americans who initially identified as independents subsequently said they "leaned" Republican, 15% were independents who leaned Democratic, with the remaining 11% not expressing a leaning to either party."
This means his idea that there's a large section of potential voters just waiting for a definitely left-wing platform is at best unproven, and at worst wrong.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)the polls are not an absolute indicator of how people vote and stand on issues. Polling also shows higher support for the ACA than for Obamacare.