Re: Democrats are losing the culture wars

On 05 Feb 2022, "2.AA6528" <[email protected]> posted some
news:[email protected]: 

> Democrats are pieces of shit anyway.

Maybe bill clinton got a few things right after all.

For years, Democrats have rarely cited Clinton and the centrist New 
Democrat movement he led through the ’90s except to renounce his “third 
way” approach to welfare, crime, and other issues as a violation of the 
party’s principles. Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, and even Bill Clinton 
himself have distanced themselves from key components of his record as 
president.

But now a loose constellation of internal party critics is reprising the 
Clintonites’ core arguments to make the case that progressives are 
steering Democrats toward unsustainable and unelectable positions, 
particularly on cultural and social questions.

Just like the centrists who clustered around Bill Clinton and the 
Democratic Leadership Council that he led decades ago, today’s dissenters 
argue that Democrats risk a sustained exodus from power unless they can 
recapture more of the culturally conservative voters without a college 
education who are drifting away from the party. (That group, these 
dissenters argue, now includes not only white Americans but also working-
class Hispanics and even some Black Americans.) And just as then, these 
arguments face fierce pushback from other Democrats who believe that the 
centrists would sacrifice the party’s commitment to racial equity in a 
futile attempt to regain right-leaning voters irretrievably lost to 
conservative Republican messages.

<https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/12/democrats-lose-
culture-war/620887/