Raze

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  1. The issue here is not development, there is such a thing as healthy stage blue. Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Lebanon and even Syria were far better places to live at one point even when they had brutal dictators, and they should be able to surpass that if they had stability with a less tyrannically government. They aren’t doomed to endless war and suffering, that is caused primarily by foreign meddling at least recently.
  2. Alexander Grace was never a pickup coach, all his videos were always just rage bait about women
  3. No, Kamala lost partially due to losing votes from demographics that voted for Hillary and Obama, it isn’t primarily racism and sexism. The media lost trust because of pushing false information such as Biden not having age problems. The short campaign wasn’t the main issue as Kamala was actually surging at first, she faltered as she chose to pivot to the center and campaign with Liz Cheney while also refusing to say she’ll be different from Biden who has become very unpopular. The Democratic Party was unified, but it unified but expelling popular movements which made them lose Support.
  4. No, they didn’t. At best they did Obamacare, a republican program, and in some ways made the issues worse like with certain trade deals hollowing out manufacturing. Because identity politics aren’t popular, but economic populism is. Democrats went the identity politics route and lost, when they should have gone the populist economic route and won. Except you said democrats don’t go progressive because they can’t win, but they actually campaign as more progressive then they will administer to win.
  5. Because if islamists are in charge it will continue being economically crushed and get weaker, and aggressive states will continue to exploit it. I’m speaking strategically.
  6. Terrorist organizations often become more moderate if they become political parties. The issue is if the west doesn’t let up the sanctions on Syria they will have a lot of issues developing as now they lost Russia and Iranian economic support.
  7. It’s a backlash because they tried to support democrats thinking it would help their lives, but democrats did little economic populism and instead focused on identity politics, so they shifted to the populist right to try and get a change there. Obama ran on a more progressive populist campaign than his actual administration. If centrism was what works, Hillary and Kamala would have won, they were center left and pivoted further to the center, yet they lost.
  8. I think the Syrian democratic forces should lay back and let the Islamist rebels take over, otherwise there will be another civil war. Then when the Islamist’s feel they are in a secure position convince them that the Democratic forces will help them retake the golan heights, when they try israel will go to war with the Islamist’s let them bear the brunt of the attacks, then after it’s over take advantage of the now weakened state of the Islamist’s and overthrow them and establish a Democratic Syria.
  9. Yes, because as I said progressive policy proposals won in ballot measures. Democrats didn’t make their campaign focused on popular policy proposals, also they had many other issues that hurt them in other ways. What little progressive populist push they had is to thanks for them not losing even worse. Except when Kamala initially began running and appointed Walz she was doing better in polls, only after she pivoted to the center did it fall. Tim Walz was barely campaigning on his progressives ideas. All the focus was on Kamala who went on tour with Liz Cheney. Most people according to polls agree with various progressive policy proposals like increasing the minimum wage and reforming healthcare.
  10. I think the US and Israel know something we don’t about HTS. If you look at the leaders Wikipedia you’d expect them to be panicking. Yet if anything they seem oddly welcoming of it. They probably have some assurance he will be more on their side.
  11. Because the candidate will offer proposals that will benefit them Except we don’t live in a direct democracy, the system restricts how much the populations interests are reflected in elections. This is why we see growing discontent. Just because something is popular doesn’t mean it will succeed when powerful forces can use various tactics to squash it.
  12. Yes because they had a common enemy, but now they’re going to be competing with each other for influence.
  13. They don’t have to be, you just need them to vote for you Third party candidates are irrelevant, unless a progressive is on one of the two major tickets we don’t know how they fair in general elections. Centrists win because the primaries are rigged by massive dollar donations and party tactics to keep everyone else out. Even so progressives have won some seats. Kamala did make a mistake as her appeals to the center clearly failed given that she made little ground with the center and ended up losing among the same demographics that Bernie sanders was doing well with.
  14. I suspect another civil war between all the different factions
  15. It means that populist progressive ideas are popular.s Unless you can point to a progressive losing a general election, it’s just baseless speculation they’d do worse than Kamala.
  16. Nope. Dan Osborn outperformed the democrats. Progressive ballot measures passed where Trump won.
  17. Hillary and Kamala were centrist, how did that work out
  18. I always wonder in these cases why they don’t dye their hair and flee to mexico
  19. I’m surprised by how uniform people celebrating his death is. I would expect it from the far left and far right, but it seems like almost everyone. Even conservatives. This is why I think a populist left candidate could be so effective if they got into a general election, even the right is sick of the elite despite the fact they don’t make the connection to the ones they like. Another issue is, if the elite really feel like the rabble are a threat to them, we will transform into a police state. They were already able to normalize the patriot act and nsa spying, imagine what they’ll do if they think they personally are at risk.