This is going to get a lot of blow back, but it needs to be said!

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49. Is the Democratic party a positive and progressive entity or not?

We can count on the republicans to turn every sniff of progressivism into a "head for the hills, the commies are coming to steal our freeeeeeedoms and riiiiiiights" fear fest, trying to squeeze one more mile out of the old heap. They're going to do that because, with the aid of a bothsiderist media, they're already doing that. And we may just profit from that by attacking full frontal and head on, calling out their hypocrisy (the protect corporate socialism "good", protect socialist programs "bad" thing they do). That may turn a few heads because, you see, there are a lot of people who know that the current of trajectory, harvesting the fruits of "conservatism", the fruits of republican kleptocracy is not going to work for them now or in their future. I've seen no such response from Biden's people yet. It's like they're afraid to brag strong and proud about how progressivism can improve people's lives. Why not lead with how "Obamacare, as incomplete as it is, is still the best thing since sliced bread? and if you don't think it is, just watch what you'll lose if republicans have their way". Following with how "we can multi-task, reduce the national debt, secure the nation, overcome covid, strengthen Obamacare and legitimize the tax code all at once". And THAT, all while the past and current crooks in office are prosecuted for their past and current crimes. Not a single lie told. Not a single promise that would require backwalking. Only the accurate and true promise of PROGRESS.

If that's NOT the approach we are comfortably willing to take, we may well find Joe Biden walking in the woods, talking to himself, next November because, for reasons I still don't understand, Hillary was NOT comfortable with such a path in 2016. Are there bad apples in this barrel we're in? Probably, but as cantankerous and single minded as he is, I don't think Bernie's one of them.