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Someone tried telling me that this will just be a return to the Clinton years and couldn't understand why I took such an issue with that idea. So much progress, lost, fuck man not even weed is going to be legalized lol.
I'm heartbroken by this new reality.
I honestly don't care at all about weed legalization, and I think progressives have done a really poor job of answering the scientific concerns in dealing with it (i.e. how to properly test for intoxication since mere detection [where via smell or via blood test] cannot be grounds for punishment given that it's a legal drug and it stays in your system exceptionally long]).
But in re the Clinton years, I think that really gets to the distinction between the "the left," progressives, etc. and standard Democrats. The divide has never, in my opinion, been nearly as much a matter of ideology so much as interest. When it comes to centrist views on key leftist issues, with Israel being a major one, the centrists very rarely have a committed view that they will intelligently defend on the subject. They just defer to the establishment line because they're not particularly interested in expanding beyond it.
Is there somebody in particular that if tapped to be SOS would make you think they are considering going to the left with regard to Israel/Palestine?
Given Biden's history, I don't think a pick that satisfies me is realistic. Someone like Michael Walzer would be great. The Carter administration is the last one to appoint a SOS that was anything but grotesque. There are more centrist establishment picks like Frederik Logevall that wouldn't anger me.