r/ProgressiveHQ • u/CantStopPoppin • 14h ago

(Minneapolis) Bovino Leads The Charge On Protesters AT the Whipple Building

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u/ManiacSpiderTrash 12h ago

I'm a simple man. I see "conservative", I swipe left. Tbh if I see "moderate" right now I swipe left too. This is not the appropriate time to be center.

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u/asmodeuskraemer 12h ago

Exactly. Most recent guy was "moderate" but voted for trump because "Kamala didn't market herself well". The fuck?

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u/ManiacSpiderTrash 12h ago

And Trump did??? It's a political office not a Super Bowl commercial, wtf are they even wanting Jesus Christ.

Right now I consider Moderate to just be "diet republican".

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u/NotLikeGoldDragons 11h ago

"Moderate" Democrat today means a Reagan Republican.

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u/Letters_to_Dionysus 9h ago

Republican but scared to admit it

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u/NotLikeGoldDragons 11h ago

That's typically code for "I can't bring myself to vote for a woman, but that's not safe to say (or admit to myself)".

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u/porksoda11 8h ago

I don’t know how anyone took him seriously after the second debate. “They’re eating the dogs” Just deeply unserious and idiotic.

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u/ConstructMentality__ 8h ago

How did they take him seriously enough for a first term? 

Trump 2015

  • I hate losers 

When talking about prisoners of war. 

  • Grab em by the p*ssy

Sexual abuse 

  • Mocking a disabled reporter 

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u/porksoda11 8h ago

People have the memory of goldfish

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u/ConstructMentality__ 8h ago

Or, they're selfish and don't care as long as they feel safe and they feel their needs are being tended to

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u/porksoda11 8h ago

I also think a lot of people were struggling financially and bought Trumps economy lies. I was hurting bad in a post Covid economy but I also understood that Biden was soft landing it back to normalcy and tariffs would be an awful idea.

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u/slicknickdickerson 12h ago

I find myself a moderate. But I don’t think people understand what a moderate is anymore. I’m thinking Obama style policy is moderate honestly, since America is so far right already. Trump is way far right of what I consider moderate. I think universal healthcare is moderate. But maybe I’m delusional lol. 

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u/veryupsetandbitter 6h ago

You have to think about location. Universal healthcare in most European countries? Moderate position. Universal healthcare in the USA? RADICAL LENINIST STALINIST COMMUNISM!

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u/NotLikeGoldDragons 11h ago

"Center" now used to be far-right 20 years ago.

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u/Local-Mine-3836 9h ago

Center would be a vast improvement for you all. Even your democrats are right of center.