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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
That'd be ideal, but as I'm playing with a handful of really bad cards, the best I could offer was Pence. He at least sounds sane when he speaks and tries to be inclusive and unifying.
Maybe this jars us out of polarization? Perhaps by having to travel a moderate, middle road somewhat together, at great common risk, people stop politicizing everything?
My wife and I have been part of a group of people discussing this stuff. The crowd of of about 500 friends is widely varied (Randian nuts to AOC style progressives). Almost everyone is polite in the back and forth and recognizes that we need a sensible plan. No one has dared to get political.
Gives me some hope an angry moderate insurgency can compel the people in charge to act like fucking adults.
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I don’t know what could more clearly demonstrate that middle of the road do nothingism is not the answer. A point you’ve, correctly, made repeatedly in recent years.
This is a real world demonstration that government matters and should be affirmatively working to improve people’s lives. Health care tied to employment is bullshit in a pandemic depression. Workers left to fend for themselves is bullshit in a pandemic depression. Monopoly left unchecked, and left facing not even small scale retail competition in a lockdown is bullshit.
If this isn’t making you a democratic socialist, you’re not human.
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