Democrats in Battleground States Want Moderate, Survey Shows

From the article ...

Would you prefer a candidate who would ...

-- promise to find common ground with Republicans = 62%

-- promise to fight for a bold progressive agenda = 33%

-- be more moderate than most Dems = 55%

-- be more liberal than most Democrats = 39%

-- promise to bring politics in Washington back to normal = 49%

-- promise to bring fundamental, systematic change to American society = 45%

Those are about as vanilla and milquetoast type survey questions as possible.

Then the NYT slaps a headline that saying Democrats want moderates, and nobody buys this corporate bought "centrism" garbage anymore -- well, except for corporate bought Democratic Party Establishment hacks who don't want change, they eat this crap up.

Here is what people want ...

www.salon.com

Allow Government to Negotiate Drug Prices (79%)
Give Students the Same Low Interest Rates as Big Banks (78%)
Universal Pre-Kindergarten (77%)
Fair Trade that Protect Workers, the Environment, and Jobs (75%)
End Tax Loopholes for Corporations that Ship Jobs Overseas (74%)
End Gerrymandering (73%)
Let Homeowners Pay Down Mortgage With 401k (72%)
Debt-Free College at All Public Universities (Message A) (71%)
Infrastructure Jobs Program -- $400 Billion / Year (71%)
Require NSA to Get Warrants (71%)
Disclose Corporate Spending on Politics/Lobbying (71%)
Medicare Buy-In for All (71%)
Close Offshore Corporate Tax Loopholes (70%)
Green New Deal -- Millions Of Clean-Energy Jobs (70%)
Full Employment Act (70%)
Expand Social Security Benefits (70%)

All of the above are in line with Bernie Sanders' politics and all are extremely popular, with support across the political spectrum.

The above issues, if advocated for and backed up with legislation, would win elections after elections -- but the Republicans will NEVER enact policies that their right-wing Plutocrat campaign donors vehemently oppose ...

And the above issues are not championed by rich Democratic Party donors because they are just as conservative on raw economic issues and oppose anything supporting organized labor as their GOP Plutocrat peers do ...

The take away?

Majorities of ordinary Americans wanting specific issues make those issues moderate and "centrist", but ordinary Americans don't get much of anything that improves their lives because American politics is corrupt and dysfunctional.

Donald Trump thanks you in advance for his re-election.

#5 | POSTED BY JPW

If Democrats can't beat Trump it's because Democrats are offering what bipartisan majorities want that will improve their lives.

You voting for corporate Democrats elects right-wing demagogues like Trump.

You need to pull your head out of your own ass.

If Democrats can't beat Trump it's because Democrats are NOT offering what bipartisan majorities want that will improve their lives.

You keep stating this as if people's voting behavior = polling answers.

They. Do. Not. Match.

Period. End of conversation.

#10 | POSTED BYJPW

You keep repeating that you deny reality. Period. End of conversation.

Independents outnumber either Democrats and Republicans.

And most importantly 100 million people DID NOT vote in 2016.

Maybe people would vote (aka expanding the tent) if one of the two parties STRONGLY advocated for the list of issues in post #3 that have strong bipartisan majorities?

100 million votes waiting to be mined by a major political party -- what are they waiting for?

I'd like to think the Democratic Party might one day realize this.

We need real, proven strategies, not maybes.

#21 | POSTED BY SNOOFY

As usual I have to do everything ...

Electoral history of Franklin D. Roosevelt
en.m.wikipedia.org

Here's a VERY CLEAR snapshot of when Democrats actually controlled Congress ...

Party Control of the Presidency and Congress, 1933-2010
cstl-cla.semo.edu

What was it that had Democrats completing dominating Congress for decade after decade?

Maybe it was the winning policies of FDR?

LOL oh that idealism is still rolling around in there, isn't it?

#25 | POSTED BY JPW

You're just like Corky, you need to just go ahead and become a Republican.

You know, this has been bothering me for a while. The Republians elevated Reagan to sainthood in the 90's and 00's and it served them well, electorally.

When are the Dems going to embrace FDR, the most popular president in modern American history? I don't get it.

How did FDR's policies that won 4 presidential elections and super majorities in Congress become anathema to his own party?

#28 | POSTED BY WHODAMAN

I agree with you 100%.