Progressive Politics

4631 readers

1481 users here now

Welcome to Progressive Politics! A place for news updates and political discussion from a left perspective. Conservatives and centrists are welcome just try and keep it civil :)

(Sidebar still a work in progress post recommendations if you have them such as reading lists)

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

TokenBoomer@lemmy.world

654

Mamdani updates Reagan's "nine most terrifying words" with nine more terrifying words: "I worked all day and can't feed my family" (i.imgur.com)

submitted 3 days ago by favoredponcho@lemmy.zip to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

126 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] yes_this_time@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Very true, we are all flawed humans.

It would do us good to examine why democratically elected positions don't often attract the right people, I suspect some mix the right people are often too busy, don't want to deal with the harassment, can't afford it. And that last point is critical, greed as a character flaw skews to the wealthy.

Then there is marketing/charisma angle, even if you objectively have the best person in hand... they still need to be elected, which is tougher to solve