in the mold of Bernie Sanders, Pennsylvania Senate Candidate John Fetterman Is the Kind of Political Communicator the Left Needs

[Failzero]

So the birth rate is declining...big whoop tee do. It affects nothing. Perhaps people can't afford more kids and are courageously choosing to have none or just one which is a marvelous idea.

The brown dwarfs swarming over our southern border will take up the Margret Sanger slack

 

[1srelluc]

I hope his next stroke takes him out for good.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

 

[basquebromance]

 

[Desperado]

Let’s elect John Fetterman to the Senate so we never have to hear Joe Manchin’s name again!

John Fetterman Is the Kind of Political Communicator the Left Needs

As a communicator, John Fetterman has the highly effective Bernie Sanders formula down pat: take progressive positions on social issues while making denouncements of the 1 percent central to his message.

jacobin.com

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As a communicator, John Fetterman has the highly effective Bernie Sanders formula down pat: take progressive positions on social issues while making denouncements of the 1 percent central to his message.

Fetterman has surprised many commentators by establishing an early lead in his Senate race against GOP nominee Mehmet Oz, aka Dr Oz. The Republican has struggled to overcome the Fetterman campaign’s depiction of him as a wealthy, out-of-touch celebrity trying to win an election in Pennsylvania from his mansion in New Jersey.

Right now, Oz’s main talking point is that Fetterman is more like Bernie Sanders than Joe Biden — an odd line of attack at a time when Sanders significantly outperforms President Biden in national polls.

Like Bernie, Fetterman takes impeccably progressive positions on social justice policy issues — but also like Bernie, he doesn’t spend his time snapping back at the “problematic.” When he recently tweeted in support of the Pennsylvania governor’s veto of a law preventing trans kids from participating in school sports, Fetterman explained his position the way you might explain your progressive views about something like that to a conservative friend at the bar — saying the law was “cruel” and calling it a distraction from Pennsylvania’s real problems.

Instead of trying to combine a commitment to Bernie’s social democratic policy agenda with appeals to Team Blue in the culture war — which seems to be AOC’s strategy — Fetterman foregrounds economic populism. Social policy issues matter, and the Left can’t and shouldn’t be neutral on whether our country has laws making life harder for marginalized groups. But when Fetterman is explaining his positions on such issues, he seems to do what Bernie does: he succinctly explains his position in terms of universal moral values and goes right back to hammering the 1 percent.

Just what congress needs another socialist.

 

[Circe]

Is Fetterman that sick fuck who can barely walk ( And is one mini stroke away from the grave ) ?

Yes ---- I can't understand the OP saying Fetterman is a Communicator?? He can't talk.

They won't let him campaign or meet with reporters. They are still hoping he'll be elected anyway, but it's become clear he was quite impaired by that stroke. So communication is not his strong point.

 

[Circe]

Pennsylvania Senate Candidate John Fetterman Is the Kind of Political Communicator the Left Needs​

No kidding. When is the last time he communicated?

The day he had his stroke.

Actually.

 

[Ralph Norton]

there is a clear choice: the party of death (Republicans) vs the party of life (Democrats)

the American people chose the good guys through the electoral college in 7 of the last 8 elections

"the party of life (Democrats)"
Other than, you know, that abortion stuff.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

there is a clear choice: the party of death (Republicans) vs the party of life (Democrats)

the American people chose the good guys through the electoral college in 7 of the last 8 elections

Democrats are pro-abortion. They are the real party of death!

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

The birth rate in the U.S. has been declining, a recent uptick (reported by the NYT) of supposedly 1% is meaningless.

COVID 19 caused all of those births because people had nothing better to do?