Their type of Democrat is a fettered man.

One of the few things the Reich wing is good at is manipulating our language.

MSM is too lazy to understand that.

Look at the sentencing of those protesters in Texas. 50 years for printing out “anarchist” literature. And almost all the major news networks are labelling them as part of an “Antifa” terrorist cell, when no such thing even exists. What I see going on in your country makes me fear it may already be too late. November midterms will be telling. Vote, vote, vote!

the Southern racist Democrats (who have since migrated to the Rethugs). Same for some of the systemic sexism included in it as well.

Equal Rights and the New Deal

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-ushistory2ay/chapter/equal-rights-and-the-new-deal-2/

Really, up until Reagan. Even Tricky would be run out of his party as a left winger. Today, anyone left of Adolph Eichmann would be considered a RINO.

... even in causal social conversation, the more we can inoculate against the big lies

That's what we're living through right now and has been building for the last 50 years. Republican ideas have always been unpopular but sold through lies, propaganda and court decisions ('corporations are people' is a fine example). Now we're experiencing a crescendo of Republican so-called 'governance', an anti-democratic, authoritarian movement run by the minority.

Wildly unpopular and well outside the norm.

It is time, beyond time for the majority of Americans to (in the common vernacular) throw the bums out, and then enact safe guards to ensure this never happens again.

And vigilance, of course, because MAGA will not give it up easily.

Eyes on November, the first critical step.

We should be hammering home all the corruption Rs allow with their voting in congress.

If I hear "we need to keep the focus on kitchen table issues" one more time I will start screaming. And the way I feel, I may never stop.

The lack of affordability and the other stuff ("kitchen table issues" - I too hate the term) is collateral damage.

Fire the consultant cabal trying to direct the Dems.

Drawing distinctions between "liberalism" and "leftism" is valid discussion, but I'd be wary of ostracizing those who consider themselves leftists at this crucial point in history.

I don't see how understanding that they are firmly at the center of our politics, and continuing a pragmatic American tradition that has been a throughline across our history, would make the positions any less attractive.

Heather Cox Richardson does a good job of debunking Prof G as she responds to his question (paraphrase: Do Americans tend to swing hard left in this type of situation?) at 28:46

To paraphrase: when you look at where the Democrats are, from the so-called moderate to progressive, they are still extraordinarily centrist... to the right of Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was a Republican, of course -- his upper tax bracket of 91 or 92 percent, his call for universal health care. All things which, coming out of WWII were absolutely centrist positions. Normally, what we do in reaction to this kind of concentration of wealth.... (listen for more good stuff and seeds of hope)

I'd settle for building bridges to get us through mid-terms.

... is "calling bullshit."

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They ARE in the center. The losers are the ones who are disconnected from the people. And that is doubly true when the losers enjoy big funding and media advantages from the big corporations.

They of course called Joe a radical left wing lunatic. He represented one of the most corporate states in the country.

Will the Democratic Socialists be the third party and divide the Dems vote, or can we get past the 'Socialist' boogey word and unify? Are we already unified?
The status quo sucks so I can see this gaining in popularity.
It will require a propaganda war against RWN equating Socialism with Communism.
Kill their talking points!

BTW, the entire thing is worthwhile, but if pressed for time skip to 28:46

When you're situated where Progressives are, Centralist Dems seem to always be on the Right.

Perspective is very much situational.

Party, the centrist foundational principles of liberal democracy, and the authoritarian communism of the "leftists" on a spectrum that is grounded in reality is very, very important.

It is not just a matter of perspective.

The clip in the OP is from the video below. She lays out a more precise way of viewing where we are, and how we must be clear about how foundational the principles of liberal democracy are to this nation -- the principles that are under attack by the fascist corporatism of the radical right Republican project.

It is they, not we, who are hellbent on destroying this country.

I don't always get a chance to watch them.

A. White men devoted to the preservation of white male supremacy.

They have been the default center of power and/or comfort zones in America for centuries, thanks to a complacent and/or fearful consensus. We continue to elect them in spite of the fact the majority of Americans oppose their agenda. Their extremist media outlets frame coverage with intentionally derogatory language that seeps into the mainstream with ease. As a result, what we know as mainstream media mimics their loaded language which they would never use for kooky extremists on the right.

I've been seeing the word "leftist" in coverage of New York's Democratic Socialist aligned candidates over the past couple days and it pisses me off.

Letters to the editor may be old school, but enough on the same subject and they get noticed.

And comments on WaPo, NYTimes, or MS Now social accounts.

It might not make a difference, but I prefer turning my anger into some action, however small it may be.

Something I would love to see would be a guest editorial from Heather Cox Richardson in the NY Times or other of the outlets implementing the bullshit labeling. Haven't thought about what I/we might be able to do to make that wish a reality tho.

Done in by payed shills
As always, beware of the sufistacated contrivance

We do not have it.

Our people are getting restless, just as the people of the USSR got increasingly restless by the 1990s despite all the propaganda, all the excuses.

The Communist Party and the classic Socialist Party lack members and political influence here. They would constitute a "far left" if there were enough of them. The Democratic Party is mainstream....and the only hope for keeping our democracy viable going forward.

The OP is just a clip from the following. Nothing particularly earth shattering, but she is absolutely right in pointing out that we have to get terms straight and reject the insanity of the radical right labels. She lays out a more precise way of viewing where we are, and how we must be clear about how foundational the principles of liberal democracy are to this nation -- the principles that are under attack by the fascist corporatism of the Republican project.

It is they, not we, who are hellbent on destroying this country.