SpokenTruth said:
It's more along the lines of stating rather clearly that yes we can pass it in it's current form. We just have to get past ourselves. We are our own obstacle. And it's pretty damned pathetic when you think about it. We hinder our own progress because we don't believe we can do any progress. In fact, it's the same notion for this idea of 'electability'. Someone is only electable or not because we say they are electable or not. That's it. It's another stupid self-fulfilling prophecy. "Oh, Sanders isn't electable so we better support Biden." He's only un-electable because of that inane mentality right there. All this potential power to change everything is right there. And we piss it away standing in our own toilet bowl that we put ourselves in. Electability. A concept developed by the establishment to guide us toward the candidate they want. All they have to say is Candidate B is unelectable...and we fall right in line. |
I agree that electability (as in, "an individual's presumed chances in the general") is a pretty stupid concept, especially when not backed by data.
That said, I think the "we just have to get past ourselves" idea is more of a long term ideal. If moderates are in office because they are who we elected, we probably need to wait a bit until we can replace those moderates with progressives, and that isn't something which is reasonable to expect in many areas.
