You may have a point if Mini-Mike cannot appear presidential. He doesn't need charisma. But courteousness, deference and a bit of humility would be significant differentiators.
I doubt he can pull that off. Buttigieg is probably the closest in that regard. But he married a guy.......
The Democrats that identify as moderate or centrist are lying to themselves the “big tent” has no spot for common sense. The unions are realizing that the Democrats will cause the loss of good healthcare plans and wage packages.
Bernie is taking a lead and Mini Mike just muddies the water for a time his S*#t the bed performance last night proves he doesn’t have what it takes to be President. It’s a battle between a Old Billionaire and a Old Communist that’s before they even meet the Trump train head on.
IME many people identify as Democrats because that’s how they were brought up “were a Democrat family” that’s great but JFK is gone!
It’s the party of AOC and Bernie now.
That's one part of the puzzle, but not the whole pie. Look at income taxes, consumption taxes and social welfare programs.
By your definition, China would be an emerging democracy.
This is true. Their open acceptance of socialism is alarming. It's not a majority, but there's also no hiding it anymore.
Well we know where we're going
But we don't know where we've been
And we know what we're knowing
But we can't say what we've seen
And we're not little children
And we know what we want
And the future is certain
Give us time to work it out
Nope. Far from it.
But that doesn't mean that a majority of Democrat voters are socialist.
but but but, guilt by association!
I think there was a mindset around here not too long ago that if you vote for X, and X is part of Y party, and Z is a socialist that is also in Y party... you therefore approve of socialism.
Is 5’7” really that different from 5’8”?And why would I believe a politicized Google?
A 5'8" guy is not generally that sensitive to height as a truly short guy...
While the current Democrats may not be the party of Kennedy, it ought not be forgotten that it was also the party of FDR. A majority of voting Americans supported the politicians who created the New Deal.
About 90 years later, everything old is new again.
Is 5’7” really that different from 5’8”?
Little man syndrome is an individual psychological condition and not a specific numbers thing.
And just who created the division? Are conservatives more or less conservative? Are so called dems more or less radical.
and it will be, over and over...
Not really into debating Bloomy's height, but he is not neither of those and LMS is real...
Little man syndrome is an individual psychological condition and not a specific numbers thing.
Uh. I think you might want to google that. I didn't pull it from my ass. Sweeden has a free market economy. It owns some means of production but is not primarily socialist. Unless you're saying a democratic socialist nation just has a lot of social programs. But that's not socialism.
But, but ... they already know 90% of everything and the other 10% doesn't matter
Is 5’7” really that different from 5’8”?
I don't think it's a "who" as much as it is a what. We're in a cultural revolution. That's causing the division. But to answer the question about conservatives, I don't think conservatives are getting more conservative. But the left is indeed getting lefter. So it's a sort of stretching of the spectrum. And that's the typical thing. Conservatives want to conserve traditions. The most conservative people want to conserve the most. People on the left tend to want to move beyond those traditions. The most left of them want to move on from the most traditions. People in the middle see the value in some traditions while seeing value from dropping other traditions.
So progressives push ever lefter. Sometimes they get what they want. And then in subsequent generations, that eventually becomes the tradition to conserve. So in that way, the people clinging to the oldest traditions are the right wing radicals. The left wing radicals are the people at the leading edge of ideology, good or bad. Not all progressive ideas make it to the main stream. But the radicals still push anyway.
That's why I say it's not a who, but more of a what that's causing the division.
You should've included the next lyric...
"We're on a road to nowhere."