I have gotten a lot of vitriol for wearing a mask while driving. This includes being flipped off, brake checked and my favorite: being paced by an angry, glaring, shouting person.

Said plenty of people who wear them all day. 

this! and most of the time when i’m in my car it’s to go to a drive-thru or do curbside where someone is going to be near me when I’m in my car. why take off my mask when i’d just have to put it back on while i’m in a drive thru lane.

I wear one while I’m delivering food, mostly so I don’t subconsciously touch my face, then touch the customer’s food box.

Yeah, if I’m running errands, why take off the mask in between stops? I’m generally not bothered by it if it’s got a nose wire so it doesn’t fog my glasses. 

I just forget I’m wearing it most of the time

Those mailers would’ve gone out no matter what the candidates stood for. Hell, look at what Collins and Loeffler threw at each other in Georgia, and they’re both Republicans!

While it’s true the Rs made that part of their campaign (they tried in Arizona, that’s for sure).. doesn’t that speak to a more complete and utter failure of these “centrists” to actually differentiate themselves among their own constituents?

It seems to me that AOC is perfectly right when she thinks the Dems in general…

I read what you wrote, it doesn’t make any sense.  “Americans are economically liberal so pretend your ideas are economically conservative” is dumb.

So the progressive leader should not be allowed to publicly hold progressive opinions?  Seems to me that if bad faith attacks had that much of an effect, the Democrats who it worked against ran poor campaigns.

Wait, hold on, allow me to personally extend my general fuck you to members of this party that are demanding everybody else speak in code to you specifically.

I feel for your friends. Really, I do. As a white woman that grew up in the 80s, I am constantly bewildered by how far we have regressed culturally.

However!

Bla…

Progressives didn’t really run on defunding the police either.  That wasn’t a centerpiece of their campaign.  Anyway, maybe centrists shouldn’t “spend untold amounts of time and resources trying to defend against” bad faith GOP attacks!  That’s a waste of resources that just makes the race about what the GOP wants it…

No one is telling any member they have to run on defunding the police anywhere.  That is just not an argument anyone is making.  It is centrist Democrats trying to tell progressive Democrats what positions they can have, not the other way around.

This doesn’t make the point you think you’re making, because it suggests that “free healthcare and free college” would actually be more popular and are things more Democrats should run on.

There is not any reason that any Democrat has to let any Republican define what any particular campaign was about. If a candidate got defined by a freshman representative from outside of their district, if they got defined by positions that they don’t hold (indeed, that almost no Democrats actually hold, and that no…

The most disheartening thing for me in this particular spat (and so soon after an election victory) is the thought of the young people that were called to action by Bernie, the Squad, Warren, etc and now the party is collectively clutching its pearls.

They can call themselves a centrist, moderate, peacemaker,…

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Really good analogy.

Trump Criticizes Trump over at Reddit is a gem