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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)11/14/2018 6:15:49 am PST

Just posted this: Hopefully people actually read it and don’t see the defense of Pelosi and the Dem establishment as OMG NEO LIB!

I can see that yes. I guess my point is I don’t like seeing someone who was actually the reason why most House Dems voted against the Iraq War resolution being labeled a war monger. I’ve even seen people say she voted for it. I don’t like someone who was on the frontline supporting LGBT rights early on have that dismissed. I’m fine with new leadership I really am. And yeah that does come off as tone deaf but here’s the thing, we are capitalist but we are also socialist. I’m frigging tired of dogmatic socialists and capitalists acting like our economy has to be one or the other. It’s always been a combination of both. Quite simply speaking, we’ve always been some combo of both.

i just think we’re making a mistake if we equate all capitalism with the right wing bs just like it’s a mistake to equate democratic socialism with Stalinism or Maoism. Sorry I just think there’s this tendency to see capitalism as the enemy. The enemy is this bs vision of capitalism that the government can’t be a positive factor in economic development. Economics is a social science about people and I really think ideologues don’t get that. I subscribed to Keynesian theories because Keynes was about observable data whereas the Von Mises kooks dismiss it. I unfortunately see the same thing with some socialists. I also wish people would see that leadership skills aren’t always ideological. There’s a lot of politics that isn’t about ideology that makes people successful leaders. LBJ was far from the most liberal Dem but very successful Congressionally domestically since he had some great skills that a more staunch progressive would have lacked. I’m not saying we should just go with the same slate we did in 06-10 but I think people greatly under appreciate what Pelosi is good at as a legislative leader which one of their favorites may struggle at. I dunno man. It’s just I see myself as a liberal but I’m feeling a bit frustrated because I think there’s a lot of naïveté about how to get true change. Change is a process not an event.