- Joined
- Dec 31, 2018
My man out here literally erasing the Obama movement he used to claim to be a part of lmao. (Just because it was headed by a Black man???)RIP Progressivism: 2015-2024
When the history books of the progressive era are written, the Sanders campaign will be the first chapter and the Watermelon Freaks will be the final chapter.
We were a quirky, but well meaning political movement that started as a push for universal healthcare and better treatment for minorities.
The "Progressivism" of the 2015-16 era was the hubris of the sheltered people who first paid attention to politics when Obama ran thinking it was just a string of endless victories where everyone agreed with you about everything. This is why the Hillary campaign was treated as the irrelevant paperwork before the coronation. This is why they almost never pay attention to anything but presidential/national politics. This is why they all lost their minds in the years after, to them politics was just the plucky heroes defeating the bad guys. The fact that Obama didn't bring about the utopia they chalked up to Obama not being a true progressive ("he's center-right" they said endlessly) and the white supremacists who eventually manifested their evil souls in our realm in the form of Donald Trump coming down an escalator. This time, with them in charge, they'd do it right.
But politics, politics never changes.