Heal….Democratic Moderates …
Or?
Fight….Progressives
Answers from an event in Iowa this weekend….
Former Vice President Joe Biden and South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieghave both pledged to heal a country riven by division.
Buttigieg, addressing more than 12,000 Democratic activists in Des Moines last week, said he would end the “partisan warfare that we have come to accept from Washington, D.C.”
“I will not waiver from my commitment to our values or back down from the boldness of our ideas, but I also will not tire from the effort to include everyone in this future we are trying to build. Progressives, moderates and Republicans of conscience who are ready for a change,” Buttigieg said. “I will never allow us to get so wrapped up in the fight that we start to think the fighting is the point. The point is what’s on the other side of the fight.”
Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), the leading progressives in the race, cast themselves as fighters ready, and willing, to take up a battle they say is already being waged by opposition Republicans.
“Anyone who comes on this stage and doesn’t understand that we are already in a fight is not the person who is going to win that fight,” Warren said, in an unspoken rebuttal of Buttigieg a half hour later. “Anyone who comes on this stage and tells you they can make change without a fight is not going to win that fight.”
Polarization is now where the country is at.
Believing that Biden, Mayor Pete ,or anyone else for that matter, is going to somehow pacify the Trump cult is naive.
I know all this healing stuff sounds good ,but we are in an era of polarization.Like all things it will run its course, but just getting rid of Trump is only a beginning
As for “healing?”That is quite a ways down the road and will likely begin on a local level and percolate it’s way up ,rather than from the top down.
Well?
we need to get the first step done….
I don’t think the Democrats deserve the blame for the polarization. For example,Republicans obstructed Democrats from appointing judges, and then once they got a majority they changed the rules and made massive appointments. I could give many other examples. The Democrats would never defend blatant corruption like almost every Republican has done.
Until This batch of Republicans – which caused the polarization- is defeated, then I don’t see much hope for healing. any major attempt by the Democrats to heal the country will result in Republicans taking advantage of the overture. It is sad that this is what I feel and believe, but it doesn’t mean I am wrong.
Absolutely Z….
People have already forgotten how Democrats where virtually locked out of government for 2 years….
But a Democratic President, with a House majority would be a good start, especially a Republican who actually has ties to old time Republicans in Congress….(hint…HINT)