r/moderatepolitics • u/cathbadh • 23d ago

Democrats should pay attention to Kristen McDonald Rivet's election postmortem Opinion Article

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/kristen-mcdonald-rivet-democrats-win-rcna184010
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u/janeaustenfiend 23d ago

My one insight from my experience with family and friends is that I think a lot of middle-aged and older people who don’t use social media or Reddit are unsettled by how radical certain segments of the progressive left have become. My Mom is a liberal boomer and she was genuinely shocked by some of the anti-Israel protests that featured people tearing down posters of Israeli hostages. I talked to many people who were terrified by what was unfolding on college campuses. The reaction has been similar to the celebrations surrounding Luigi Mangione.  

I think a lot of this unhinged behavior is distracting people from what most progressives are trying to accomplish and it’s making moderate liberals wary. The internet is robbing many people of their ability to think critically or even show compassion for their ideological opponents and it’s alarming to people who don’t spend very much of their time online. 

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u/samudrin 23d ago

Funny, the article about the Michigan pol who won with +7% lead over Kamala, who’s #1 point was “don’t blame woke…” one of the top comments of course: “oh it’s the anti-genocide protesters. They’re scary.”

Ridiculous.

Bombing a civilian population is scary. Protesting said genocide is the only moral stance.

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u/janeaustenfiend 22d ago

I don’t have a problem with some of the protesters, but I live in DC and saw a protest with my own two eyes at Union Station in which more than one person had swastikas drawn on posters and someone was wearing a Hezbollah headband. If you think behavior that didn’t lose the Democrats votes then we’ll have to agree to disagree. 

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