So here's an issue I just wasn't necessarily planning on addressing.
But after seeing story after story after story from all these super smart American political
pundits telling us the Jeremy Corbyn's defeat in the recent UK elections is somehow a cautionary
tale for leftist in America.
I couldn't ignore it anymore because those false talking points are still being circulated
in new articles every day.
So just for a quick recap, yeah.
Boris Johnson won the UK election.
He is a hard right conservative.
Uh, pretty much the same making is Donald Trump.
Jeremy Corbyn was a leftist labor guy, lost, lost big time.
Conservatives really won the day over there in the UK and so obviously after that, all
these American political pundits came out and said, Oh my God, see what happens folks,
see what happens when you go too far left, you lose elections, you lose your power.
So Democrats in the United States, you need to not go too far left because the same thing
will happen to you.
And nothing could be further from the truth.
First and foremost for two different populations.
Like two different societies.
You can't necessarily compare the electoral makeup of one country to another.
That's not how this works.
But more importantly, why would one loss over there cross the Atlantic ocean be a cautionary
tale when roughly 1000 losses when the democratic party moved to the center?
That wasn't, that wasn't a cautionary tale at all.
And just to remind you of the numbers of what Democrats lost during that shift in the Obama
years, when we moved a little closer to the center, a little further to the right, we
lost 62 seats in the US house of representatives.
We lost 12 governorships and we lost 958 seats in state legislatures.
Oh, and we also lost control of the US Senate, which we have not yet gotten back.
And all of that was because we were moving a little too close to that center, almost
stepping over the center all the way into the right.
You know, why was Hillary Clinton's defeat in 2016 not a cautionary tale about moving
too close to the center.
I am sick and tired of these idiot moron pundits telling us that we can't go to far Left.
I mean even when you look at the polls and see, Oh my God, overwhelming numbers support
Medicare for all and debt free college and green new deal and $15 minimum wage and all
those great progressive socialist ideas.
People actually liked them left right and center.
They loved them and yet we can't stand behind those policies that are hugely popular because
then we're at risk of winnin- uh losing an election.
Yeah, backing popular programs is how you lose elections according to the super smart
pundit class who know way more than you and I could ever know based on, I don't know,
because the data doesn't back up anything they have to say literally none of it, none
of it.
And yet these people get paid the big bucks to go out there on MSNBC to write their columns
in Washington Post or the New York Times and tell us that, Hey, that election that happened
a couple thousand miles away is proof that people like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren
can never win an election, in a different country.
Don't believe those stupid talking points.
Pay attention to what's happening here in the United States.
You can win by moving further to the left, and if you don't believe me, I would like
to refer you to last year's blue wave.
I think that sent a message pretty loud and clear that when you back away from corporate
centrism and you embrace true progressive policies, you can change the country.