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[Two Americas]

Is that why McGovern couldn't get elected in South Dakota? Why Paul Wellstone, Hubert Humphrey and Walter Mondale couldn't get elected in Minnesota?

What matters is having a strong and unapologetically left wing organization, such as the DFL in Minnesota, politicians with courage, and activists willing to support them rather than always kissing the asses of the powerful and taking the path of least resistance.

It has nothing to do with the middle, the center, being practical, being realistic, a conservative public, or any of the rest of those pathetic excuses for cowardice and compromise.

Left wing candidates could win in almost every district in the country, except among those apologists for the status quo, mostly from the upper 10% income bracket, and about evenly split between so-called "liberals" and so-called "conservatives," who vary in their political views from one another in matters of how subjugation of the working class should best be administered and managed. Most of our modern political battles are between two factions of upscale gentrified aristocrats, and the interests of the other 90% of the population do not figure in to that, regardless of which party is in power.