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the thing i keep coming back to in my head when i hear shit like "democrats need to be moderate, meet in the middle with GOP" isn't even just obama's failures here, or john kerry's failures to get that appeal

it's all the way back to fucking bill clinton
crime bill, destroys welfare, continues and pumps up all kinds of war abroad, just does all this deeply republican wet dream shit

and it just doesn't matter. right wing electeds still call him the devil, so does right wing media, nonstop. bridging that gap was impossible
and as that right wing media machine has become even more powerful, and all the "southern strategy" style republicans who want to be bigoted but in a quiet way get shoved out for more blatant reactionaries from tea party on, somehow people keep doubling down on "moderation"
so many people - from any old voter to actual members of any part of the political machine to commenters and pundits - simply have no idea what to do with an opponent that will never operate in good faith or give them credit, so they just try to appeal to them again and again
obama deports more people than bush, throws billions more into the military, and democrats up and down the vine from voters to elected officials have no idea why republicans aren't giving them credit for doing what they wanted

and instead of stopping, they just do it more
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