Obama just made a speech warning democrats not to go too far to the left.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50445743
Link is to the BBC as I didn’t see it in the NYT.
In many ways I find that Democrats are simply unelectable.
If you’re a Republican and taking your instructions from your holy book or from tradition established in the past 200 years (which means white male supremacy), I can still understand where you are coming from. Even if I loathe it. But I can’t understand Democrats (or the political left in most developed countries) at all.
This article quotes Obama as urging Democrats to pay attention to real voters’ views, eg on immigration. He urges them not to ‘tear down the system’ and says that the country is ‘less revolutionary than it is interested in improvement’.
Obama is quite right. Why are the political left so keen on doing everything they can to change the character of our country? It’s not hell.
There are a lot of real s-hole countries in the world that produce nothing but refugees and civil war.
We do want a president better than Trump. But the Democrats must be mad if they think that I want to empower far left people like Mao’s Red Guards.
Trump may be every bit as bad as the last Russian Tsar Nicholas II. But remember, the political left that seized control from the right wing ancien regime, only led the Russians to more suffering such as Stalin’s purges and the Holodomor.
I can’t possibly vote Republican and support Trump. But I’m from a Blue State, so I don’t have a hard choice. I can go third party or sit on my hands, and the Democrats will still win. I daresay a lot of people in Purple States are scared that if they vote against Trump (Nicholas II), they might end up with something worse (extreme left Bolsheviks). Warren being so far left and showing no signs of self-reflection, I can’t say this is not true.