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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Are you kidding me? Maxine Waters' defenders and detractors have been filling up the news feed (she's not progressive, but her fans sure seem to be). The unseating of a moderate D in NY by a progressive is everywhere.
Quite literally, any given day, half of Twitter will be progressives battling with Trump, and the endless litany of stories about these exchanges.
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Sebby, none of what you say in this post has anything to do with what you were just saying, that the ideas that you think of as "progressive"* are "eating all of the media coverage". Maxine Waters said something that no one would have noticed if the White House hadn't highlighted it to play the victim. Moreover, what she actually said** doesn't have anything to do with what you call progressive. And today you have horse race coverage about the Democratic primary in NY because a high-ranking D congressman unexpectedly lost, but I don't see any coverage focusing on what Ocasio-Cortez wants to do.
This loopy idea that progressives who want to run your life are on the march -- it says a lot more about you.
* "Progressives think they know how society ought to be arranged. They'll take care of your health care, they'll tell you what you can and can't say, they'll enforce fairness, and if you're unwilling* to care for yourself, they've got an administrative architecture of programs and incentives that will nanny you properly. (And if you're willing to care for yourself in a way they don't like, they'll fix that.)"
** ""Let's make sure we show up wherever we have to show up. And if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. And you tell them they're not welcome anymore, anywhere. We've got to get the children connected to their parents," Waters said at the Wilshire Federal Building, according to video of the event.
"We don't know what damage has been done to these children. All that we know is they're in cages. They're in prisons. They're in jails. I don't care what they call it, that's where they are and Mr. President, we will see you every day, every hour of the day, everywhere that we are to let you know you cannot get away with this," she added."
