• Rapidcreek@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    This is a silly Trump troupe. It’s silly because it won’t work.

    Tim Walz is a veteran, gun-owning football coach from rural Minnesota. He doesn’t code as an extreme liberal. Take a look at him and you see your teacher.Your coach.

    For a political attack to work, it has to be believable, and there is nothing believable about Tim Walz being a dangerous extremist

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      Well, they can attack him on his policies. He has a track record of promoting unions, affordable healthcare, free meals for schoolchildren, paid family and sick leave… You know, things the rich and powerful somehow have managed to convince a huge chunk of uneducated working class are bad.

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      I hope it doesn’t work. The much more important things with Walz is that he crosses the aisle to work with the other side, that he effectively compromises and doesn’t fall for this ‘zero sum’ bullshit. The fact that his position on the already inaccurate and distorted left-right spectrum is the point of concern is absurd.

    • A drop of rain landed on my screen and clicked into your post history. And before I realized that, I found myself agreeing with mostly every comment. So I thought I’d share that you seem to me to have way above average accumen and intuition for politics and rhetoric, and you’re clearly not just regurgitating punditry but actually sharing your own takes and opinions. Can’t help wonder about your education and experience in policy and politics, pro or gifted amateur?

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        Well thanks. As a kid I grew up on capital hill as my brother was a senior advisor to a Senator. Soon after, I worked national political campaigns as a kind of front man. Saw a lot of the US. Then, off to college, with some of that spent in Europe. Carrer in telecommunications, more foreign trips. Like politics as I find it to be the background music to civilization.