• Halosheep@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    I keep hearing this ‘status quo’ excuse but no one ever explains what the fuck that’s supposed to even mean.

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      1 month ago

      Unpopular, uncharismatic, neoliberal establishment candidates that are pushed down the throat of democratic party voters (Hillary, Biden, Kamala)

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        1 month ago

        The exact same DNC also pushed Obama down our throats who had the same policies as all those canidates, and that turned out great

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          Great? Wasn’t it that Obamas ambivalence towards lower offices and rise of identity politics that ushered an era of Republican obstructionists and things barely got passed, if at all?

          Bernie would’ve mopped the floor with Trump. But instead we got the wife of a pervert who has the charisma of a hangnail, and who on top of that, actively promoted Trump in Republican primaries because she thought he’d be an easy candidate to beat.

          Ignoring, gaslighting, belittling, and berating the electoral base is not how you gather support

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          Obama vowed to transform health care and he did. Biden Harris did not have any policy aspirations at all.

          This should teach the DNC that if you run on even a modest progressive policy that even the republicans want, you will win. And if you dont, you will lose. You dont even need to stop calling the progressives names, you just need to make peoples lives better and more Just.

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        I’m aware of the phrase’s meaning. It’s not being used this way from what I can tell.

        Seems to me that conservative policy is the status quo. Almost by definition, ‘conserving’ the way things are, or what they believe it is. As a general trend, the us has leaned much more conservative. This is the status quo.

        Changing, progressive policy is literally antithetical to the status quo. A woman in office is not the current state. So why do people say that the dem candidate is the status quo if that makes no sense?