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Methinks they'll let Progressive Sheeples flail about awhile and get it out of their systems like kids. THEN they'd lay down the law.
Then Sheeple will come here and pretend he was all for it the whole time.The dems put great store in a few authors on their side that basically tell them what they want to hear. Remember, "What's the matter with Kansas?", a book that basically said that Kansans always vote against their economic interest?
Another one was Ruy Texeira's book "The Coming democrat Majority". That one predicted that since Hispanics were/are becoming a greater part of the population they'd just vote democrat forever.
Oops. People vote for more than just their skin color as hopefully we learn tomorrow.
Anyhow, now Texeira is saying this:
https://www.thefp.com/p/progressives-blew-it-crime...How Progressives Blew It
Defund the police. An open border. Identity politics. End the use of fossil fuels. Is it any wonder America turned against the progressive movement?
By Ruy Teixeira
October 27, 2024Boom. I'll note that A LOT of posters here tried to gaslight us about the defunding police, no fossil fuels and all that.
He goes on:
It wasn’t so long ago progressives were riding high. They had a moment; they really did. Their radical views set the agenda and tone for the Democratic Party and, especially in cultural areas, were hegemonic in the nation’s discourse. Building in the teens and cresting in the early ’20s with the Black Lives Matter protests and the heady early days of the Biden administration, very few of their ideas seemed off the table. ... It’s the only way to fight privilege! Insist that a new ideology around race and gender should be accepted by everyone? Only a bigot would resist!Except...
In reality, a lot of these ideas were pretty terrible and most voters, outside the precincts of the progressive left itself, were never very interested in them. That was true from the get-go, but now the backlash against these ideas is strong enough that it can’t be ignored. As a result, politics is adjusting and the progressive moment is well and truly over.We'll see. The kind of toxic progressivism he speaks of lives on and is "thriving" (meaning: democrats in places like Seattle and San Francisco keep voting for it no matter how much it fvcks up their cities)...
