The Progressive movement must become non-sectarian and welcome everyone from the left spectrum.
Whether you consider yourself a liberal, progressive, leftist, socialist, leftist, etc.
We cannot become sectarian or contrarian. If you agree healthcare is a human right.
AOC and Zohran are the best people to beat this red scare tactics by the Republicans.
By reassuring that Dems have been called socialists or communists for decades they are minimizing their attacks.
Well done!
Zohran Mamdani: “Democrats have been branded as socialists for longer than I can remember. I remember President Obama being called a socialist almost every single day by Republicans and it didn’t stop him from delivering not just on his first term but his second term. People are hungry for a vision of the Democratic Party that has more to do with the New Deal than the raw deal that so many Americans have been forced to accept”
The older I get, the less I think “seeing good in everyone” is wisdom & the more I think discernment is an act of self preservation.
Some people are kind. Some people are harmful. Most are complicated. Pretending otherwise gets expensive.
The whole point of having separate branches of government is so one person doesn’t just wake up and decide everything unilaterally while everyone else shrugs on cable news.