Sadly, rape and murder are all too human evils.

Maybe they are trying to convince you that Hamas is evil.

Well, Israeli war aims included diminishing Hamas. But they also included returning any hostages who are still alive. So I think the fighting will continue at least in the short term.

#almostDrWho

They didn’t all go poof.

• Fani Willis indicted Trump and his crew with 41 charges.
• The judge said 6 of the 41 were too vague, the other 35 could proceed to trial.
• Willis is trying to get those 6 added back to the 35.

Not all moderates are Dems. Many are independents.

I see plenty of leftists saying things like “I refuse to vote for Democrats”.

I see plenty of moderates saying things like “I usually don’t vote the Democrats but this time I will”.

It makes more sense for Democrats to appeal to the latter then the former.

That want their biggest supporters to vote for them.

But leftists are not their biggest supporters. Moderates are.

Democrats are trying to win elections in America, so it doesn’t matter how their platform compares to the left in France.

They are trying to appeal to the American center, which means people like my supervisor and my mail carrier. Those people are not leftists but they are more likely to vote for Democrats than many leftists are.

Last year, progressives said they could not support Biden because of inflation. Or because of student debt. Or because of the BNSF strike.

It’s clear Democrats cannot rely on support from progressives, and for this reason it makes sense for Democrats to try to appeal to moderates. Unlike progressives, moderates seem willing to support Democrats as they are instead of requiring them to be something else.

That’s true, centrists need progressives to win and progressives need centrists to win.

The question is whether Democrats can more easily win over more centrists or more progressives.

Interesting! I don’t know if the difference is due to sample variance, poll date (June vs August), wording (“send military aid” vs “providing the right amount of military aid”), or something else.

A successful candidate needs to win both.

Sure, it needs to be reformed. But if progressive candidates cannot be viable until the electoral system is reformed, then we should support moderates until that happens.

Furthermore, some offices are in less need of systemic reform than others. For example, elections for Senator and governor are straightforward popular vote contests unaffected by gerrymandering. Therefore they are relatively fairer tests of the electability of progressive candidates.

Primaries: “I agree with those progressive policies, but we need to vote for the person most likely to win”

That’s what moderates in the party believe. If progressives want to move the party left, they will have to prove moderates wrong. They can only do this by actually winning primaries and then winning in the general.

For example, when AOC successfully primaried Crowley. Or when Newman successfully primaried Lipinsky. Progressives need more victories like those to become dominant within the party. If they can’t achieve that, then moderates are right.

How’d trying to go after progressives work for Sanders? The progressive base is not large enough to win a primary, much less the general.

So has she. This is just in public.

If you want the Democratic party to change, you have an opportunity every two years during the primaries.

60% of Americans want the United States to keep up its military support for Israel until the hostages held by Hamas are freed.

Russia first.

Democrats argue with Trump supporters all the time, I see no reason why third party voters should get a pass. Especially when those two groups have so much in common.

Dreaming is just another word for “thoughts and prayers”.