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(1a/9) The Terrible Damage We Do . . . Voting Blue No Matter Who
Does a rallying cry make sense for a Tea Party-style movement to re-center Democrats to a truly Center-Left agenda make sense?
The Terrible Damage We Do . . . Voting Blue No Matter Who.
• (1/9) Centrist Democrats Do Not Reflect the Will of their Voters
• (1a/9) “Top-Down” Makes More Sense Than “Left-Right” Today in the U.S.
• (2/9) Voting Blue No Matter Who Just Gives Democracy a Great Big Screw
• (3a/9) Why Vote “Blue No Matter Who” If Centrist Dems Never Play to Win?
• (3b/9) Why Don’t Centrist Dems Show Up to Fight (Blue No Matter Who)
• (3c/9) Blue No Matter Who — Even When Centrist Democrats Are Incompetent?
Derek Reinhard asked a thoughtful question in response to Part 1 of this series on “The Terrible Damage We Do . . . Voting Blue No Matter Who.”
What started off as a short answer to Derek’s question ended up being not so short — hence this addendum to Part 1 of this series.
As with the Tea Party movement (off-the-rails as it has gone), is this a rallying cry for a Tea Party-style movement to recenter the Democrats to a truly Center Left agenda?
If Centrist Democrats looked as serious about climate and corruption as you are calling for them to be, then I think Centrist Republicans could even come along.
- Derek Reinhard, 08/15/2022
Derek, thanks for reading and replying. I’m going to take the liberty of reframing your question, but I will also circle back to your original framing along the way.
Left-Right framings used to work, but they don’t anymore.
I think that the “Left-Right” or “Democrat-Republican” framing of U.S. politics and society used to explain quite a bit about how the U.S. worked back in the 1960s, 1970s, and probably even through the 1980s.
(I can’t speak that well about the 1950s and 1940s, etc., but I think with regard to my article and your question, 60 years worth of historical context is enough for us to have a thoughtful conversation here.)
