Unfortunately I think he either has hit, or is close to hitting the tipping point and returning to his more conservative views.
He’s almost 60, started as a Republican around 40ish? And kept conservative views even after switching to D.
Like, he’s just at that age where the brain starts losing critical thinking. When that happens the brain falls back on younger habits and patterns instead of trying to solve every new thing as a new thing.
It’s just how the brain works.
Bernie is an outlier because when he was 20 he was in the civil rights movement, him falling back on old habits and patterns isn’t that bad, because we still have the same problems.
If/when Jackson returns to his initial political views…
He entered politics as a Republican to protest against immigrants.
Maine deserves better. And they just got fucked.
Playner could have won the election, then stepped down and Maine could get a special election.
Instead the state party (run by Florida fuckups) picked a candidate that’s going to only get more conservative over the next 6 years of the term he was handed.
Troy Jackson, who is expected to become the Democratic nominee for Senate in Maine, said he would not support Senator Chuck Schumer of New York to continue as the party’s leader in the chamber. Mr. Jackson also said that he was not sure he would want Mr. Schumer’s help in the general election.
Mr. Jackson made his most definitive rejection of Mr. Schumer to date in an interview on Monday with The New York Times.
“The Democratic Party needs to have a different approach — getting people back in the party, getting working-class, everyday people back in the party — and I don’t believe it’s going to happen with Senator Schumer,” he said.
The Democratic Party needs to have a different approach — getting people back in the party, getting working-class, everyday people back in the party — and I don’t believe it’s going to happen with Senator Schumer,” he said.
Emphasis added. Codeword for so-called “moderates” (conservatives.) he’s probably going to be worse than Fetterman
Isn’t even that DSA wants to do? You need to unite the working-class, which means also reaching out to those people and bringing them back into the party. Whether or not that means appealing to their ignorance, or reframing the problem is ambiguous, but I think pointing the finger at Schumer (as opposed to say, Mamdani) is a good sign.
Honestly if it’s done through actually helping people it’s fine, the thing is though that the end goal should be to bring in disaffected folks who aren’t directly aligned with either party and shore up existing voters. Going for Republicans is broadly a lost cause unless steps are taken to shit can their propaganda networks so ideological drift can cause regional base splitting.
Exactly what DNC wants to happen. Hell majority of them are right of Regan on policy. So I am not shocked they are championing another former Republican. Just like Elizabeth Warren is also former Republican. She was one while Regan was president and stayed that until the Clinton’s took the Democrats to the right.
[Platner] could have won the election, then stepped down and Maine could get a special election.
…like they could’ve done with Biden. Instead, they switched candidates and further confirmed the rule that it 100% fails when you switch candidates to try and get around the idea that voters can’t choose the least worse of exactly two fucking options.
This is gonna go really well. Best case, people get another Fetterman.
Unfortunately I think he either has hit, or is close to hitting the tipping point and returning to his more conservative views.
He’s almost 60, started as a Republican around 40ish? And kept conservative views even after switching to D.
Like, he’s just at that age where the brain starts losing critical thinking. When that happens the brain falls back on younger habits and patterns instead of trying to solve every new thing as a new thing.
It’s just how the brain works.
Bernie is an outlier because when he was 20 he was in the civil rights movement, him falling back on old habits and patterns isn’t that bad, because we still have the same problems.
If/when Jackson returns to his initial political views…
He entered politics as a Republican to protest against immigrants.
Maine deserves better. And they just got fucked.
Playner could have won the election, then stepped down and Maine could get a special election.
Instead the state party (run by Florida fuckups) picked a candidate that’s going to only get more conservative over the next 6 years of the term he was handed.
For whatever fucking reason, Maine seems to love conservatism (case-in-point, Collins reelected since forever).
I guess at least Jackson is younger than Collins
And at least he says he won’t support Schumer’s reelection, big win for me:
Emphasis added. Codeword for so-called “moderates” (conservatives.) he’s probably going to be worse than Fetterman
Isn’t even that DSA wants to do? You need to unite the working-class, which means also reaching out to those people and bringing them back into the party. Whether or not that means appealing to their ignorance, or reframing the problem is ambiguous, but I think pointing the finger at Schumer (as opposed to say, Mamdani) is a good sign.
Honestly if it’s done through actually helping people it’s fine, the thing is though that the end goal should be to bring in disaffected folks who aren’t directly aligned with either party and shore up existing voters. Going for Republicans is broadly a lost cause unless steps are taken to shit can their propaganda networks so ideological drift can cause regional base splitting.
Exactly what DNC wants to happen. Hell majority of them are right of Regan on policy. So I am not shocked they are championing another former Republican. Just like Elizabeth Warren is also former Republican. She was one while Regan was president and stayed that until the Clinton’s took the Democrats to the right.
…like they could’ve done with Biden. Instead, they switched candidates and further confirmed the rule that it 100% fails when you switch candidates to try and get around the idea that voters can’t choose the least worse of exactly two fucking options.
This is gonna go really well. Best case, people get another Fetterman.