Outlaw
New Hope For the HaveNotz
If I grant your framing, our justification for supporting candidates is closer to where the American electorate is than your fantasy that the average voting American are policy wonks.Leftists/Progressives feel good about a candidate because that candidate ticks off policy boxes. Which is why damn near anyone - from a young latina bartender in NYC to a former marine oyster farmer in Maine to a septuagenarian Harvard Law professor to an old hippie ex-Mayor from Vermont to a 34 year old muslim ex-rapper in New York - is welcomed by the progressive movement, as long as they display commitment to the progressive political agenda. What you're calling "consensus group think" is just ideological commitment to a moral and political philosophy. This differs from the power aesthetics and vibe-based "adult in the room" approach the centrists and Libs have. Which is why that one brainless idiot in here keeps going on about Gavin Newsom's physical attractiveness or why you were (are?) pushing The Rock.
Honestly, who would be better positioned to defeat JD Vance in a general election?
Rashid Tlaib running on your perfect, ideologically pure platform or The Rock/Gavin Newsom charismatically presenting the 2028 means tested DNC platform?
We both know the answer
Leftists/Progressives feel good about a candidate because that candidate ticks off policy boxes. Which is why damn near anyone - from a young latina bartender in NYC to a former marine oyster farmer in Maine to a septuagenarian Harvard Law professor to an old hippie ex-Mayor from Vermont to a 34 year old muslim ex-rapper in New York - is welcomed by the progressive movement, as long as they display commitment to the progressive political agenda. What you're calling "consensus group think" is just ideological commitment to a moral and political philosophy. This differs from the power aesthetics and vibe-based "adult in the room" approach the centrists and Libs have. Which is why that one brainless idiot in here keeps going on about Gavin Newsom's physical attractiveness or why you were (are?) pushing The Rock.



