(1a/9) The Terrible Damage We Do . . . Voting Blue No Matter Who

Jeffrey Goodman
8 min readAug 15, 2022

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?

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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…

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Jeffrey Goodman
Jeffrey Goodman

Written by Jeffrey Goodman

Navigating facts and numbers to help people. Strong opinions on climate change and healthcare. Objective, not neutral. MIT engineer, Wharton MBA.