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W. A. Samuel's avatar

Re number 6: Democratic legislators in the state’s House of Representatives voted to censure a Republican representative who voiced an (appropriate) opinion re a trans (male) competing and winning as a female in HS pole vaulting ?? Upset ?? Really…. ?? First, how utterly stupid to think that men should compete in female events.

Regardless of what some misguided woke adults might think, go ahead and survey the female athletes impacted. They utterly reject the unfairness of men competing as women. Second, and last: shouldn’t elected state officials be tolerant of an opposing perspective. This is where “woke” fails the sniff test: “only what I say & believe is permissible, no dissent is tolerated.”

The fact this is happening in Maine must mean a lot of Boston-area folks have migrated north. Perhaps they should just keep moving further north into Canada ?? Just a joke; can you woke folks take it ?? This kind of hypocrisy is why the progressive Democrats will not win a national popular vote.

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Compelling, if depressive read. I have not read "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions", that was very insightful in understanding why the left has difficulty in adapting on issues that are 80-20. I am also convinced AOC is most likely to be the democratic nominee in 2028, and if stars align (huge recession or other major crisis on Trump's watch) she could even win, and the woke will be back in a big way. But if she loses, especially in an environment that is not favorable to the republicans, there might be a reset? Will wokeness be finally defeated for good? I personally think if Democrats elect AOC, they are almost certain to lose in the general.

Damir at Wisdom of Crowds makes the case for liberalism having reached a dead-end; the progressive thought that guides DEI may have outlived its shelf space (https://wisdomofcrowds.live/p/we-deserve-it-all). I think many in the middle have come to a conclusion DEI does not work and as a society we seem to be more like what we were in the 90s.

Another path exists for democrats, though I am not sure who might be the right person to run on that: competent center party as a bulwark against MAGA extremism. The person running on this platform would be strongly anti-illegal-immigration, tough on crime and border, against regulatory state, DEI and gender ideology (maybe subtly against so as not to alienate the left completely), and holding the welfare state steady while bringing down the federal debt (maybe by raising taxes on the rich even). Bill Clinton in his prime would have been the perfect person to pull this off.

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