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In reply to the discussion: 'It's not just one district': Ocasio-Cortez pushes back on Pelosi [View all]JCanete
(5,272 posts)you are in favor of dems who are cozier with big corporate ideals, which again, is a legitimate position. You can hold that they are the best candidates in a race. You can hold that the other candidates are working from an unpragmatic and thus, ineffective platform. I wish you wouldn't hold that corporate money doesn't then become a factor, because I think that's patently absurd. But you could still hold, as Barney Frank has, that it is a necessary factor that without which, we would not be competitive at all.
An insult that calls dems corporate is I agree, simplistic, and has the further connotation of assuming that a dem is literally bought. I confess I've used it and may in the future, though I tend to use establishment dems, which I'm sure you would also take issue with, but in that case I think the baggage that term carries is more in line with what you believe of the democratic establishment. There certainly is one. It is a quick way to refer to those that have a certain vision for the party and the way it has and should operate.