Quote Originally Posted by JaneV2.0 View Post
Oh God, yes. For years I voted for anyone but the "anointed" of either party. Finally, the Democrats are showing actual progressive ideas, and I hope this is a move away from the Fascist and Republican Lite choices we've been stuck with for decades now. As Warren Buffet famously said “There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.” I'm too old to emigrate; I'd like to actually see "government of the people, by the people, and for the people" realized in my lifetime.
It’s a two-part risk proposition in raising the red banner in 2020. How representative of the general run of Democrats are the candidates brought forth through the primary system? If the answer is “not much”, will that result in another “enthusiasm gap”? And how interested will the general election voters be in “making America work for them” when it dawns that Nordic welfare programs carry Nordic taxes on more just than the disgustingly wealthy? That truck drivers will be commanded to pay the college debts of aspiring filmmakers?

In a year where I would have thought a fence post could beat Trump at the polls, they seem to be making a big bet that massive top-down transformation is what the voters want. If it isn’t, then we could well see another historical embarrassment for the party if Americans refuse to buy into the class struggle narrative.