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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
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Not anymore, as the letter points out, the remaining Southern Democrats are some of the most liberal in the country, after all they not going to win so they've no need to compromise.
edited 21st Apr '16 6:43:06 AM by Silasw
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranThe Smug strain in American Liberalism
I've seen this come up more and more as I've begun to hang around with more leftwing people. Hell I've experienced it myself. Hell it's even coloring their understanding of history, with the Democrats new found love of their former Federalists rivals, well that and Alexander Hamilton turned out to be good at rapping
. The Federalists may have been right,hell I do kind of like them, but at the end of the day they were a party built on smugness and elitism. It's why they love John Quincy Adams, a man who came to power by blatantly subverting the will of the people. The result of this smugness amongst the Federalists and the Whigs was defeat and the destruction of their parties by the ignorant hicks they held in contempt. Andrew Jackson was their blight, and I fear unless the
Democrats at least reform their tone if nothing else, Trump, or someone like him, will be theirs.
And now for something completely different The candidates in Game of Thrones
Trump would probably be a Tyrell. They are outsiders, but are dealmakers like the Lanisters.
edited 21st Apr '16 6:48:03 AM by JackOLantern1337
I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.Trump on Harriet Tubman $20: 'Pure political correctness'.
What is this, 1965? The majority of Dixiecrats - and more importantly, the whites who voted for them - became Republicans after the GOP realized
they could ride white Southerners' racial resentment into the White House.
The majority of Southern Democrats today are the same black people and their descendants that the Dixiecrats wanted to keep segregated.
edited 21st Apr '16 7:09:07 AM by Achaemenid
Schild und Schwert der ParteiThere are some left at a local level, but they're not the majority and not in charge, they're simply hold outs like Kim Davis. The last important ones got voted out in 2010.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranThat Vox article is a load of bollocks. The reason the white working class drifted away from the Democrats in the late 20th century was resentment over civil rights, pure and simple. Now, I won't argue that liberalism didn't go to some fairly smug places in the 80s and 90s, but that wasn't what drove people away.
edited 21st Apr '16 7:41:41 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!""I care about results. I don't check under people's clothes. Unless I'm into them, or I'm running a pageant for them."
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Trump is an immigration and straight talk anti-politics wonk. As a Swiss citizen I can say such an agenda can net you a lot of votes even without following all tenets of radical right-wing-ism.
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That and they got blamed for various economic and foreign policy disasters.
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It's talking more about their smugness towards the general population, and Republican voters in particular. And it's not so much thinking they are evil, it's thinking they are stupid people who don't know what's in their "self interest", or their shameless drooling about how America's future is inevitably a deindustrialized urban,though obviously a gentrified, one It's a good read, though a long one.
edited 21st Apr '16 10:06:59 AM by JackOLantern1337
I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.Don't Shoot the Message. Using liberal "smugness" as an excuse to ignore completely valid warnings about the consequences of one's actions is ... well, stupid. Justifying the point in question.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"South Park had a whole episode about it, when a Smug epidemic caused by everyone going Green threatened the West Cost

Well, objectively speaking, winning the Democratic primary in Wyoming or Vermont is less important than winning the Democratic primary in South Carolina or Florida. Writing off Southern Dems is a relatively lesser sin than writing off those voters.
Sanders' biggest scalps have been Michigan and Colorado, which are important states, but I don't think Hillary has dismissed them.
How, pray, are they doing that?
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