twincityhacker:

brainstatic:

The backlash against Ocasio-Cortez for saying it’s good to deport literal concentration camp guards shows how you can’t campaign in slogans alone, because everyone has a different interpretation of what they mean. A hell of a lot of people were under the impression that abolishing ICE meant abolishing the entire practice of deportation, and no politician saw it that way. I’ve heard activists on the left say policy details don’t matter at first, because it’s all about energizing people. I get the logic in that, but there’s the reverse side: a generation that becomes turned off from voting because they perceive major promises being broken. And this little dust up is nothing, wait until people learn that Medicare doesn’t resemble the single payer of popular imagination.

I’m guessing that will happen about the same time people realize that Medicaid is also not like that, and is actually run by extremely profitable insurance companies.