08-10-2020, 10:23 AM
(08-10-2020, 10:15 AM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Your conclusion assumes that this is a finite process and that it has ended. Bay area politics didn't become mainstream and then stop evolving. Bay area politics only got more extreme and, for reasons the author already cited, the same thing will continue to happen. This is not a process that has ceased, it is ongoing.
I mean, it's still ignoring the fact that the DNC and the majority of elected officials at the federal level are still decidedly liberal and not leftist. Nancy Pelosi, for example, may be more progressive than some of her colleagues, but she is still very much a pragmatic liberal. The Democratic party has still not reached being center-left on the geopolitical spectrum. They relate more to center and even center-right parties across the globe.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
