re: #86 HappyWarrior

To me, the battle within the left isn’t an ideological one just like the battle within the right wasn’t one. Kasich actually implemented a lot of the things that are very popular with conservative voters as Ohio’s governor and worked to implement as a representative. What’s going on here is something much more than that. Within the left too. I actually don’t really have too much disagreement with the OR Wing, I think universal health care is a great goal to consider and I think we should definitely strive for more affordable post secondary education but I also have this pragmatic streak that comes from reading history. It’s knowing that the Nordic countries didn’t just do socialized health care. It did take time and we have other factors i.e. a societal aversion to SOCIALISM, a much bigger country, and yes racial resentments that make that harder. Of course, you bring that up and you get called a neo-lib or told to shut up about identity politics but we didn’t create identity politics. Identity politics were forced on us from the start.

The danger is that the same compromises that were made in order to push forward the New Deal will be made here, i.e. the exclusion of minorities and ‘others’ in order to bring the white majority on board. Which would inevitably be used as more fuel for ‘see, everything equal now and they still fail, why can’t you accept they’re just inherently inferior subhumans now?!’