Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Sam Seder — Midterm Elections Do Not Show Dems Need To Stop Being 'Hard Left'

The Majority Report's Sam Seder takes on Chris Matthews and his predictable call for Democrats to move further to the right during this Tuesday's election coverage.
During MSNBC's Midterm election coverage, Chris Matthews said the Democrats need to stop being "hard left" and get stuff done. While saying this, progressive referendums were winning across the country...
This is what we're going to be treated to for the next two years from our so-called "liberal media" and pundits like Matthews -- hippie punching, calls for President Obama to cooperate with Republicans no matter how destructive their agenda may be and calls for the Democratic party to move to the "center."
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7 comments:

Ignacio said...

0_o

What definition of "hard left" do these guys have!? Democrats are a neoconservative party.

Anything to the 'left' of 'von Mises' is hard left now?

Ignacio said...

Matt this is what I said in other post: impossible to implement a truly democratic progressive agenda like Dan Kervick one in this environment.

You would get bashed and destroyed by the status quo as a 'communist', they would find ways to throw you to jail or whatever. This people thinks current democratic party is 'hard left' ROLF! Insane.

Ignacio said...

People like Roosevelt (both of them), Einsehower or Eccles would be labelled as communists right now and declared terrorists and enemies of the state.

Matt Franko said...

The Dem faction still enjoys the advantage with the socio-economic justice cohort, its not even close.... its theirs to lose...

Imo this is what just happened ie they lost... to win you have to have the better / more credible appeal to the socio-economic justice cohort. ..

Joe said...

I hear on the radio that Obama needs to move towards the center now.... And I think, there's no way he's moving further left towards the center.

Tom Hickey said...

The pundits have this all wrong. They think that the election shows that the votes are to be had on the right not realizing that the GOP focused on voter intensity by throwing red meat to the base without "doing stupid shit" as they did previously, while the Dems stiffed their base and reduced voter intensity on their side. The general feeling on the right is that Obama is the devil himself, and the general feeling on the left is that Obama betrayed them. In a very real sense, this was an election that was about Obama. The GOP got no "mandate to govern" as the pundits seem to think. If Obama further betrays the left by pulling a Clinton and "reforming entitlements," the left will be ripped and voter intensity on the left will drop still more for the Dems. Then the only hope for the Dems is that the GOP nominates someone so absurd for president that the left votes against that person out of fear, but not for enthusiasm for the dem nominee. This could have, for example, if the GOP would nominate Ted Cruz and the Dems Hillary. Lots of people on the left who would pass on the election if say Jeb Bush were the GOP nominee and HRC the Dem nominee would turn out to vote against Cruz by holding their nose and voting for HRC.

Matt Franko said...

I think you are right on here Tom...

My Dem friends active in local politics here in MD were pretty lethargic at the end right before the election.... not a lot of energy they looked spent... shoulders slumped, lack of smiling, etc...

Its turning into an ebb and flow between moron faction #1 and moron faction #2....

rsp,