MLK Jr once said it wasn’t the KKK holding progress back, but the white moderate. In this day and age, moderate democrats/center are the absolute definition of what MLK was warning us about.
They do. I just see it used far too often as a condemnation of ‘moderates’ in general, when MLK Jr. had no problem with working with people who were far more moderate than him… as long as they were willing to go forward, and not backwards or remain in place.
MLK Jr doesn’t exactly have his finger on the pulse of modern politics but I’m sure he’d slap anyone who decided to not vote or vote for Trump in the last election.
He would’ve slapped the Democrat Leadership from moving even more to the Right (with things like getting close to the Chenney Family) all the while one of the main strategies of the other candidate was to promise to solve the problems of the working class.
Yeah, Trump was lying his ass of, as usual, but clearly a lot of people saw “candidate that promises to improve my life” vs “candidate that doesn’t even do that and cozies up with elites” and voted for the former or just thought “they’re all liars” and didn’t vote - relying on “fear of Trump” for the incumbent to get votes from an electorate which is economically crushed after 4 years of that incumbent’s policies even while de facto telling that electorate that “we don’t care about you”, all while the opposing candidate tells the “I care about you” is the very opposite of an intelligent strategy.
So the supposedly “leadership material” at the top of Democrat Party applying for the position of “leader of the nation” literally followed the worst possible strategy when it comes to the vote of the low politically engaged working class (who don’t live in the “couldn’t give a shit about economic inequality” permanent online identity wars battlefield that is American “politics” nowadays), yet according to the Democrat Party tribalist club fans, the fault couldn’t possible be of their incompetent, priviledged and “detached from what’s the real world for most people” leaders and the fault is all with “leftwingers”.
If America actually does keep on having free(-ish) election, people supporting this narrative are just making sure that after one or two Democrat Presidential terms, another MAGA type gets power again folowing the exact same strategy as Trump and they’ll probably be a more effective version of Trump.
MLK Jr once said it wasn’t the KKK holding progress back, but the white moderate. In this day and age, moderate democrats/center are the absolute definition of what MLK was warning us about.
MLK Jr. is speaking about people who claim to be allies but insist on doing nothing and rebuking the Civil Rights movement at every turn.
People like that exist today and they’re in DNC leadership positions.
They do. I just see it used far too often as a condemnation of ‘moderates’ in general, when MLK Jr. had no problem with working with people who were far more moderate than him… as long as they were willing to go forward, and not backwards or remain in place.
Which today are moderates and fake progressives/democrats. The players changed as the game remained the same
MLK Jr doesn’t exactly have his finger on the pulse of modern politics but I’m sure he’d slap anyone who decided to not vote or vote for Trump in the last election.
He would’ve slapped the Democrat Leadership from moving even more to the Right (with things like getting close to the Chenney Family) all the while one of the main strategies of the other candidate was to promise to solve the problems of the working class.
Yeah, Trump was lying his ass of, as usual, but clearly a lot of people saw “candidate that promises to improve my life” vs “candidate that doesn’t even do that and cozies up with elites” and voted for the former or just thought “they’re all liars” and didn’t vote - relying on “fear of Trump” for the incumbent to get votes from an electorate which is economically crushed after 4 years of that incumbent’s policies even while de facto telling that electorate that “we don’t care about you”, all while the opposing candidate tells the “I care about you” is the very opposite of an intelligent strategy.
So the supposedly “leadership material” at the top of Democrat Party applying for the position of “leader of the nation” literally followed the worst possible strategy when it comes to the vote of the low politically engaged working class (who don’t live in the “couldn’t give a shit about economic inequality” permanent online identity wars battlefield that is American “politics” nowadays), yet according to the Democrat Party tribalist club fans, the fault couldn’t possible be of their incompetent, priviledged and “detached from what’s the real world for most people” leaders and the fault is all with “leftwingers”.
If America actually does keep on having free(-ish) election, people supporting this narrative are just making sure that after one or two Democrat Presidential terms, another MAGA type gets power again folowing the exact same strategy as Trump and they’ll probably be a more effective version of Trump.