Nice job, Cuomo.

I like dogs.

From a couple pages back, but I think there's a lot of truth in this post and McP's subsequent post. At least it appears that way to me anecdotally.

As a result of party polarization/tribalism/whatever, it seems like more and more people view everything political as a single binary choice and as a result conflate the differences and relationships between those two positions. This leads to assumptions that are not only oversimplified, but down right inaccurate. I think many of us have, out of convenience developed an inaccurate use of a transitive property for political ideology. For example, if conservative = pro-military and conservative = blue lives matter and conservative = capitalism, then capitalism = pro-military and capitalism = blue lives matter = pro-life, etc. Of course this is totally inaccurate, but I think that a lot of people think this way.

This works the other way as well, of course. If FoxNews says that socialism = everything Obama or any Democrat does, and Democrats = anti-police brutality and pro-choice and tolerance, well then socialism = anti-police brutality and pro-choice and tolerance. And helping the poor, etc.

It's easy to see where young progressives would take the term and and assume positive meaning into it.

The beat goes on where the hand has been

Good God man that took less than 12 hours.

I was coming into this thread to complain about Florida's choices being a Trumpite and a Bernie Bro but good grief.

Good God man that took less than 12 hours.

I was coming into this thread to complain about Florida's choices being a Trumpite and a Bernie Bro but good grief.

as much as i'm generally at odds with the far left, the jump in voter turnout for the so-called Bernie Bro in FL is pretty riveting stuff.

You and me both.

Your opponent is another in a long, tired line of unhinged leftists drawing from what unfortunately appears to be the inexhaustible well of Bad Ideas? Eh, just call him a monkey and make the race about identity instead.

The right is just so dumb, and so completely devoid of anyone with ideological scruples.

Idk. He's way too far to the left to get elected in a statewide election here by basically any means except his opponent maybe saying something like voting for him would monkey things up. Maybe this DiSantis moron keeps doing this kind of thing and gives him the election, but I feel like Democrats massively screwed up picking Gillum in a year where they actually could have a legitimate chance to win for literally the first time in a couple decades.

Gillum benefited from an overly crowded field, he only won 34% of the vote (500,000 out of about 1.5 million), and fewer people voted in the Democratic primary than the Republican primary. Either way, I'm with you that it's pretty surprising that he won, but I'm very unsure if this indicates any real increase in enthusiasm for far left politicians in Florida.

For reference, in 2016 Bernie won 33% of the vote (568,000 out of 1.7 million votes). So Gillum did slightly better than Bernie, but it could be that Gillum won basically the Bernie crowd again, and this time the establishment wing votes were divided by three other candidates instead of going overwhelming to Hillary like in 2016.

Maybe not a coincidence, but the numbers are still lower than the republicans.

Republican: 5,997 of 5,997 (100%) precincts reporting, 1,623,442 total votes
Democratic: 5,997 of 5,997 (100%) precincts reporting, 1,514,774 total votes

https://www.vox.com/a/primary-election- ... ry-results