• Apricot@lemm.ee
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      29 days ago

      Apparently Kentucky has a history of voting blue governors and red everything else.

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        29 days ago

        That’s truly surprising to me, but then again Bernie won over a Fox “News” audience. People do want good things for themselves when they aren’t being fed packaged vitriol and hate and fear of the “other.”

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          29 days ago

          I have come to suspect they do absolutely know this. And it’s why they put stops in at every turn. I can’t say what’s actually going on in their heads but it’s not winning elections and it sure as hell isn’t representing their constitutents desires. Democrats are a Conservative Party—classically liberal. They do not like or want actual progressive policy.

          There’s no way they don’t know that progressive platforms win.

          Look at all the flipped party double agents over the past few years who ran as progressives and flipped to Republican as soon as they got into office? They absolutely know.

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      29 days ago

      Kentucky’s largest city is staunchly deep hardcore blue.

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        28 days ago

        Internet tells me this is Louisville. Not surprising that IF there is a blue city, it’d be a large city. You meet the most people who aren’t like you in large populations.