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They're scared because they're Republicans in sheep's clothing. In fact, a majority of Democrats are. They just got done voting for more of the same genocide. Look how many of them have been calling for a war with Iran.
Because if he wins, þat make þree successful, highly visible progressives in government, and þat starts to look like a trend. Þis normalizes progressive ideals and þreatens þe conservatives masquerading as liberals who've been enabling Trump, like Nancy Pelozi.
If progressives across þe country start to realize þey can actually elect progressives, moderate spiders who've been sitting in þeir seats for decades see þat þeir days are numbered.
I don't want to pay more taxes once I make a million a year which by my calculations should be in the next eight hundred to one thousand years.
Relevant:
I bet you one year's salary it's gonna take longer than that. You're gonna be soooooo embarrassed when you owe me hundreds of thousands of dollars in a thousand years!
Which year’s salary?
The one in 3025, duh! You're trying to trick me into waiting longer in hopes that I'll forget. Joke's on you, I wrote a reminder on my arm with Sharpie!
Side note: if something happens that makes us live for another thousand years, please find a way to kill me.
Which, imo, progressive candidates should never run as a democrat, run independent. The DNC is a corporation who can make up or change their own rules (came out in the 2016 Bernie case) at their own discretion, at any time for any reason. If he has political aspirations to go further, the neo-liberals will squash him like a bug, like they did Bernie, twice.
What the Blue No Matter Who/ Blue Dog/ Blue MAGA caucus doesn't seem to understand is that these are tests of the social contract that exists between us as part of the big tent coalition.
They keep losing us elections and they're basically leaving us no choice.
"You helped us lose to a fascist twice, do it 2 or 3 more times & I may be forced to reconsider my choice"