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This has been my belief for a long while: Other than for foreign policy, the consensus white left political/electoral analysis of why we donât have nice things has been mostly wrong.
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I think their analysis has way over-diminished the impact of racism in electoral politics. I think they have interpreted outcomes as Democratic *goals* rather than Democratic *compromises*. I think they lose track of the big tent nature of the Democratic Party
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of the power of right wing messaging, of the imbalanced nature of our electoral system (which favors low-population states), of the power of elected GOP (and their more-often-than-not majority in at least one house,
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of the structure of our government being biased toward stasis (harder to pass something than to block something), and of the fact that presidents are not kings (even Trump, for all his willingness to break the law to force his way, had real limitations). 4/
My observation is that twitter groupings tend to be along practical politics/electoral theory more than along ideological lines. My *ideology* can be that workers should own the means of production (it is); that we need a complete overhaul of how we approach education (it is);
That the basic premises of the GND are good (it is); that publicly funded universal health care is an essential right (it is); and a whole list of things that white leftists donât necessarily bother with.
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But when I hear white leftists say âDemocrats would win if they just ran on these things!â I canât help but wonder what la-la land they live in. And when I hear them say that we donât have those things because Democrats are âcorporateâ I wonder why they have missed 7/
Everything about US history.
Anyway, âTwitter leftâ is really a certain electoral approach rather than an ideology, IMO. âTwitter centristâ is too. On twitter, no matter what your ideology is, you are âleftâ or âcentristâ based on how you perceive politics works in the US 8/
Anyway, âTwitter leftâ is really a certain electoral approach rather than an ideology, IMO. âTwitter centristâ is too. On twitter, no matter what your ideology is, you are âleftâ or âcentristâ based on how you perceive politics works in the US 8/
IMO, the government fairly accurately reflects the f*cked up population. IYO, the government is a betrayal of the not-f*cked up population. I think thatâs the core of the gap.
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