Quote (CarsV @ Jul 3 2019 12:19pm)
The frightening thing was when they all raised their hands during the Democrat debates for ludicrous shit like open border policies. Not one of them dared to stand out and be a leader. Instead they all came off as followers willing to do anything to virtue signal for a few extra votes.
What I don't understand is why, in a pool of 24 democrats, we don't see one candidate who bucks the trend and openly chastises the others to differentiate themselves and simply disavow the far-left.
Hickenlooper is pussyfooting around rebuking socialism while Klobuchar is simply staying mum. There are 24 democrats who are all pandering to the far-left or true believers
Imagine a single one of them gets up and challenges the others and stakes out a position as a sensible centrist. If they just write off all the conventional wisdom of going far let in the primary. It might be exactly the kind of breakout moment it takes to shock the system. Look at Trump, he didn't win by abiding the conventional republican primary wisdom. For fucks sake, he's probably paid for more abortions than number of delegates that voted for Jeb Bush, and Trump spent half his life as a democrat.
If you're in a pack of 24 and not sitting in the top 3, you aren't going to win by meekly submitting to every far-left whim. If at the next debate Amy Klobuchar did a hard face-turn-heel and called out democrats for not speaking out against the antifa attack on Andy Ngo, denounced healthcare for illegal aliens, said we need smart border security, etc etc- she'd instantly seize an entire block of the moderate democratic electorate. Just not the coastal radicals. Could she win the primaries anyway? Well,
Hillary Clinton did, and she's indistinguishable from George W. Bush.