Since 2016, Democrats have operationally withdrawn from rural America.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Since 2016, Democrats have operationally withdrawn from rural America.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.
2014 - Democrats vote in some “blue dog” democrats. Progressives complain that they’re DINOs.
2022 - Democrats get push back from centrist democrats like Kristen Sinema and Joe Manchin on the Green New Deal. Democrats cast them out.
2025 - John Fetterman works across the aisle in support of rural voter causes…you get the drill
This article “we need more rural democrats!” Yeah, good luck finding ones who are willing to take the progressive lambasting.
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:
Yeah. centrists.
Yeah. A centrist.
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.
They absolutely were centrists.
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.
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.
They represent the right flank of the democratic party. They’re centrists.
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
So why do we let them run the party?
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.
If they don’t, did Build Back Better just kill itself, one piece at a time, over the course of months?
It isn’t gaslighting to point out that you’re using a word wrong.