Re: Francesca Hong’s defeat won’t stop the D emocratic Socialists

Noah Sombrero <[email protected]> posted:

> On Sat, 15 Aug 2026 10:03:05 -0700, Dude <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> >On 8/15/2026 6:58 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
> >> On Fri, 14 Aug 2026 20:14:25 -0700, Dude <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> 
> >>> On 8/13/2026 2:25 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
> >>>> On Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:06:00 -0400, Wilson <[email protected]>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> On 8/12/2026 11:35 AM, Julian wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> So, at time of writing, it looks as if voters don’t want to cancel
> >>>>>> Thanksgiving – on balance, at least. Come November, however, few
> >>>>>> Democrats will be expressing gratitude for their party’s vote-tabulation
> >>>>>> systems.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Francesca Hong, it seems, will not be America’s first avowedly socialist
> >>>>>> state governor. She appears to have just lost an extremely tight primary
> >>>>>> to David Crowley, a Milwaukee County executive, in the gubernatorial
> >>>>>> primary in Wisconsin.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Woke 2
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The Democratic Party is, I think obviously, undergoing an historic
> >>>>> radicalization. Woke 2, a playful framing for what is clearly
> >>>>> unapologetic Marxism, is, if unchallenged, the future. But before we can
> >>>>> unpack this new, cooler woke, which promises to jail the rich and steal
> >>>>> their things before it targets the white middle class (the
> >>>>> “bourgeoisie,” they call this), we unfortunately do have to jump through
> >>>>> the first traditional media hoop: does this very real thing, which all
> >>>>> of us see, actually exist?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> You’ll be happy to hear that NY Mag is on the case, and there is
> >>>>> absolutely nothing to see here:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> “Cherry-picking controversial past statements or social-media posts from
> >>>>> a handful of candidates and then inflating their numbers astronomically
> >>>>> is required to sustain any sort of red-wave hypothesis. Are there DSA
> >>>>> members (not candidates, but rank-and-file members) who are Marxist, in
> >>>>> the sense of viewing political and economic life through the lens of
> >>>>> class struggle? Yes, there are, much as there are rank-and-file members
> >>>>> of the GOP who by any conventional definition are proto-fascist. That
> >>>>> Marxists define the Democratic Party as a whole is ludicrous. And by the
> >>>>> way, these allegedly terrifying progressives are winning primaries by
> >>>>> appealing to voters in free elections, which was not a tactic favored by
> >>>>> Bolsheviks.”
> >>>>> <https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/the-gops-big-red-scare-is-really-stupid.html>
> >>>>
> >>>> Oh, my, a tiny bit of sanity.  How mystifying.
> >>>>
> >>> So, it's come to this:
> >>>
> >>> Francesca Hong, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib are the
> >>> measure of sanity in US politics today.
> >> 
> >> Wrong, there is no such sanity in us politics.
> >>
> >The problem is you just can't make sense of it.
> 
> The problem is that craziness rules.  Since himbo.
> 
After losing, Hong had screamed in anguish after coming home to find 
an early invitation to a family Thanksgiving. - Babylon Bee

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