• @Montagge@lemmy.zip
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    110 days ago

    I think y’all just need to come to terms that America is further right than the Democrat party, and the Democratic party moving left is not going to help them.

    • @octopus_ink@lemmy.ml
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      410 days ago

      the Democratic party moving left is not going to help them.

      How would we know that? They’ve never tried.

        • NoneOfUrBusiness
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          -110 days ago

          I mean look up Obama’s presidential campaign. He flipped red states and won blue states by running on a progressive anti status quo platform, and in doing so wiped the floor with the Republican candidate.

          • @Montagge@lemmy.zip
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            110 days ago

            Why would I look it up when I lived through it already. He ran a fairly standard Democratic campaign.

            • NoneOfUrBusiness
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              110 days ago

              Huh??? Okay you gotta be shitting me. I’m not American so while I know that’s impossible but I can’t really refute their personal experience so can an American around here do it?

              I’ll just quote this:

              Many pundits have considered Obama’s 2008 campaign to be one of the greatest political underdog stories in U.S. history.[9][10] The campaign is credited for shifting the status quo of the Democratic platform, especially on issues such as healthcare reform.