Democratic voters have made clear they want a fighter. Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is willing to give them one.

I think I’d have better luck winning the Powerball than what he wants Democrats to be.

  • qprimed@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    6 months ago

    what I see so far is a lot of signalling - and thats important for base support. the talk gets refined for palatability to a wider audience as time passes.

    if he stakes out fIrmly articulated progressive positions then I might get slightly interested. until then, he’s just another billionaire that should not exist, rhetoric be damned. gonna take a whole lot to shake the triangulating politico smell.

    we dont need a hero. we need a movement directing a leader.

    edit: anyone able to give some constituancy specific info?

      • qprimed@lemmy.mlEnglish
        6·
        6 months ago

        thanks for the trench report - super grateful for it. will look at him a little more seriously because actual empathy that straddles class is a good start. if he can articulate that the class struggle is real, the average american has effectively lost and that he has concrete plans in concert with others to fix it… thats the first hole punch in a ticket to ride.

      • Doug Holland@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        6 months ago

        Thanks for this. I’m a few thousand miles from Illinois, so my Pritzker awareness isn’t robust, but with what you’ve written and quoted here, I’m moving him to my list of good guy Democratic politicians.

        There are 9, now including Pritzker.

      • thedruid@lemmy.world
        13·
        6 months ago

        Bo one becomes a billion naire without standing on the misery of others. He can fuck himself to until I see him standing in the streets with us not a podium with a microphone.