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Originally Posted by MWF
I think both parties are in a weird spot now. For the Democrats, there is a split between centrists and progressives. The centrist wing's blaming the progressive wing for the centrists losing their seats, and you have the progressive wing basically saying that those candidates didn't support their policies anyway, so its the centrists own fault (I agree with this). I would be absolutely terrified of getting crushed by the Republicans in 2022 and 2024 (still am), but the Republicans will be fractured too. It'll be split between the Mitt Romney types in the government who just want to politely give more power to the wealthy and the cult of personality around Donald Trump. Its gonna be interesting seeing how this plays out going forward. If Republican voters lose faith in voting as a result of Donald Trump losing, will they still come out to vote? How many of them only came out because of Donald Trump? Its gonna be interesting and kinda terrifying to see how this plays out.
This country has way too many giant issues to deal with. If Biden and the rest of the centrists just sit on their hands and compromise on awful ideas, I'm really worried the country will just continue to fall apart. I've never been less excited over a win.
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It'll be interesting to see if Biiden can actually unify the country. Part of unifying is going to mean looking at his own party. It'll be interesting to see how he will work to bridge the gap between centrist dems and progressives. I actually just talked about this on my facebook page and one of my centrist dem friends tried to, initially, place most the blame on AOC (my article pertained to her stating she might leave politics due to the hostility) and then I called him on that and he back pedaled and said we need centrist dems for the swing/red states.
What I find most telling is that the Dems who back M4A won re-election (even in swing states) the Dems who did not were not re-elected. I read a quote that Tlaib made basically saying that it seemed like centrist dems are asking her and the progressives to stop working on implementing policies that would help black people.
I hope that Biden has learned from Trumps presidency and he will take the necessary steps to unify the country and his party. My hope is that he will get the centrist dems to talk more openly with progressives about the policy changes and way to implement those changes. Without the senate (two run offs in Georgia though) we cannot implement progressive policies but they can work together to come up with a strategy to gain more votes and then get to a place where they can start implementing those polices.