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Former President Barack Obama used an appearance at a high-dollar donor confab on Friday to urge the field of Democratic presidential hopefuls to "pay some attention to where voters actually are," warning them about going so far on certain policies that they become out of step with voters.
Obama said that some Democrats are listening too closely to liberal Twitter and progressive activists, specifically singling out issues like health care and immigration and, in what amounted to a stern warning to the 2020 field, bluntly said that voters are "less revolutionary than ... interested in improvement" and warned about turning off certain segments of the electorate by not being "rooted in reality."
Obama warns 2020 candidates about getting out of step with voters: Be 'rooted in reality'
Mr Obama told the audience: "I get a sense among certain young people on social media that the way of making change is to be as judgemental as possible about other people.
"If I tweet or hashtag about how you didn't do something right or used the wrong verb, then I can sit back and feel pretty good about myself because 'Man did you see how woke I was? I called you out!'"
"That's enough," he said. "If all you're doing is casting stones, you are probably not going to get that far."
Mr Obama added that "people who do really good stuff have flaws".
Barack Obama challenges 'woke' culture
because Obama is absolutely right, most people don't want to tear down the system
People didn't vote for Trump to tear down the existing system,
originally posted by: ChaoticOrder
a reply to: Phage
People didn't vote for Trump to tear down the existing system
originally posted by: hopenotfeariswhatweneed
originally posted by: ChaoticOrder
a reply to: Phage
People didn't vote for Trump to tear down the existing system
Pretty sure they did actually, trump was voted in to take down the status quo, you know stick it to the deep state , how can you in your right mind argue otherwise?
he said he wanted to make it great again
Do you think Trump is a moderate Republican?
the fact remains the dems have moved very far left and are proposing radical changes that scare most moderates
I think that the Democrats are tending too far left. I know that the Republicans are too far Trump.
What does this even mean?
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: ChaoticOrder
he said he wanted to make it great again
Yup. Reactionary.
Bring back the buggy whip factories! And coal and stuff!
I simply believe that free market capitalism,
originally posted by: ChaoticOrder
originally posted by: hopenotfeariswhatweneed
originally posted by: ChaoticOrder
a reply to: Phage
People didn't vote for Trump to tear down the existing system
Pretty sure they did actually, trump was voted in to take down the status quo, you know stick it to the deep state , how can you in your right mind argue otherwise?
This is nothing but deceptive wordplay, we both know very well that the type of change Trump promised is very different from the type of change the far left wants. They want to quite literally tear down the existing capitalist system and replace it with hard socialism. Trump didn't say he wanted to tear down the existing system, he said he wanted to make it great again and weed out the corruption. It doesn't matter how much you try to dance around this basic point, the fact remains the dems have moved very far left and are proposing radical changes that scare most moderates.
But, how can you reconcile Trump's policies with anything resembling a free market?
originally posted by: Gryphon66
Extremism divides; moderation unifies.
Trump is an extremist, Warren/Sanders/etc. are extremists.
Most of us, by definition, are not extremist.
Only as far as it benefits him. But you didn't talk about how tariffs relate.
I'd say he's a pretty free market sort of guy,
Indeed. Drill baby drill.
Considering Trump has trimmed down the amount of regulations
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here.