Have any Democrats read the opinions or watched the Youtubes of James Carville?

@soar2newhighs As far as I know, he represented a winning party quite a few years ago, and he is trying to tell them why they will NOT win...ever again...if they keep on pandering to the radical fringes....in the VERY SAME WAY that conservatives would never win again if they began catering to white supremacists and neo Nazis.(As they were accused of doing by the Dems).

@4meAndyou There is a moderate faction of the Democratic and Republican parties, and these two are the factions that need to lead the way. Radical views on either side bring the respective party under heavy scrutiny. That said though, politicians on both sides know the art of BSing and pandering.

@soar2newhighs I have been saying that for soooooooo long. The Blue Dog democrats need to put on their big girl pants and cleanse their party of the radical faction. If the country wants a third party, a Socialist party, then that should be legalized in every single state, and then the Democrat party will not be destroyed. They can simply tell the socialists to campaign as themselves.

@4meAndyou "Cleansing" is not something the Democrats can get away with saying internally. BTW, I'm pretty sure a Socialist party is not illegal in any state, at least yet.

@4meAndyou For those both independent or Democratic politicians who have very radical/leftist views and ideology, they in some respects have an advantage; they're promisers, and the young people and many adults too, are easily taken advantage of by the "utopian" dream these socialists and left Democrats espouse. Even Hillary, on the Ellen De Generis show, lambasted Bernie. That could be a veiled swipe at him to knock him out of contention, or possibly a truth spoken by her, that as she said, paraphrasing, "don't promise what you may not be able to deliver on".

@MistyCee No, in fact it is NOT illegal in 13 states. However, all the states need to recognize their right to appear on the ballot. If they do not, then Bernie and people like him will eat the Democrat party alive.

@soar2newhighs It is impossible to call Bernie on issues like cost...because when asked, unlike Warren, he doesn't even try to answer. He gets crabby and says things like, "Who knows? Nobody knows!"

So Hillary may be full of sour grapes, but many politicians lie to their prospective voters to get them to vote for them...and Bernie just happens to appeal to a demographic with very little experience of politicians and their empty promises.

@4meAndyou I'm not sure you're right about the risk benefits to the Democrats, because I think they need all the votes they can get, notwithstanding the alienation of other voters.

But, are you really saying that it is illegal in 37 states to have a socialist party? That doesn't sound right to me.

@MistyCee I know I read that somewhere...darn. Anyway,

Because of the difficulties third parties face in gaining any representation, third parties tend to exist to promote a specific issue or personality. Often, the intent is to force national public attention on such an issue.

Nationally, ballot access laws are the major challenge to third party candidacies. While the Democratic and Republican parties usually easily obtain ballot access in all fifty states in every election, third parties often fail to meet criteria for ballot access, such as registration fees. Or, in many states, they do not meet petition requirements in which a certain number of voters must sign a petition for a third party or independent candidate to gain ballot access.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_party_(United_States)

@4meAndyou Right, ballot access laws. They don't make socialist parties in particular illegal, as opposed to say, Green parties, or libertarian parties, any of whom, if they qualify, can appear on the ballots.

@MistyCee I read, somewhere, that the third party must meet those requirements in every state nationally to meet the requirement for the presidential election, and that so far, only 13 states meet that requirement for the socialist party...which is a real and separate third party...and Bernie should stop lying about who he is, and so should AOC.

@4meAndyou Interesting. Ballot access is a different issue, and without really studying it, I like the idea of states being able to make their own laws, but my guess is there have been federal lawsuits over some of them.

I hear you about socialists I'm the DNC, but it's not unrelated to the calls for throwing Romney out of the RNC. I doubt either party really wants to do that.

Plus, unlike the Republicans, who seem to have suppressed most of their differences, the Democrats have yet to really do that, and I think will have a harder time with doing it than Republicans.

@MistyCee It'll be like herding cats...😂

@4meAndyou Exactly. Despite the current fad of equating Democrats to fascists, at best, theyre really more like pre Stalin communists, all with their own angles and ideas and without a strong authoritarian leader to get them to work together.

@MistyCee Pelosi and Schiff seem to be out of their depth.

@4meAndyou They both seem to do pretty well inside their lanes, but neither is particularly well suited to wrangling candidates.

I'm not sure really who would be. Look what happened to the Republicans when they had to many candidates and no clear leadership. Trump took the party away from all of them.

@MistyCee I think Pelosi is dissolving with all of the pressure from the radicals who have entered the House, and Schumer faces a threat when AOC runs against him in the next election. She is stupid as all hell, and a huge embarrassment, but people vote for eye candy.

@MistyCee I'd like to amend my response, if that's ok.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1226847711703584768


Based on Trump's history regarding accuracy, it seems unlikely that AOC will take Schumer's seat.

@MistyCee Thank God. Schumer is a snake...reminds me of a lying cobra...but AOC is a wrecking machine, and a stupid one at that.