This guy is gonna change US politics

[WonderSeeker]

I recommend watching this interview of Dr. Abdul El-Sayed running for US Senate.

He's young, charismatic, and a great male role-model. He's intelligent, IQ-wise, and displays empathy for those in his community, both through his words and track-record.

He is solid green and I'd dare to say has rays of yellow piercing through in the way he thinks about issues and problem-solving. While he still frames things in terms of corporations vs people (which is mostly accurate green framing on the topic of wealth concentration), it's worth noting he also goes into how he's derived his values and how many of them are principle-based. Plus he campaigns like a fuckin bull and when he wins his Senate seat, he will have earned it.

The part I think many are missing though is he's not just running to be in Congress. If you pay attention to the way he's campaigning and what he's actually talking about, you can see 1) he's thought deeply about America and her problems, 2) he's painting a new, uniting philosophy that regrounds us in the Constitutional Framers' vision, but from our current vantage point, and 3) he actually knows how to market his vision to make it click into voters' realities (which has been a big downfall for 99% of democrats and progressives, post-Obama).

In this very interview he talks about trying not to be ideological itself. Not that he's as good as a mystic at doing it, but it's a breath of fresh air to see a political candidate thinking more in the direction of truth while strongly rejecting corruption and bullshit every chance he gets.

He's got a strong brand and an excellent vision behind it. Plus, he's got real swag. Like, REAL, alpha swag. 

You cant change a whole country with one person, much less do it overnight. But with Abdul I see something different. He goes meta and outside of the box in his thinking.

Edited 23 hours ago by WonderSeeker

[enchanted]

He's awesome. Vote blue no matter who this midterm — make Trump a lame duck president. 

Last chance to vote is today and tomorrow. 

Edited 19 hours ago by enchanted

[WonderSeeker]

Amen.

Somehow raging about Repubs became more popular than generating momentum with good Dems, even in this forum.

Drama is clickbait. It's a distraction. The real gold is recognizing we are seeing a generational talent and throwing everything behind him instead of worrying about the orange clown talking about men's asses at his rallies.

[Hardkill]

Let's all cross our fingers for him!

Edited 4 hours ago by Hardkill

[Apparition of Jack]

Today’s the day 😬 from the rest of the world, please don’t fuck it up America 🤞 

[aurum]

He has a good vibe.

Definitely quite Green in his thinking. Which is not bad per se. That’s mostly what America needs to advance right now.

Edited 3 hours ago by aurum

[Raze]

Not sure. On one hand he’s a Muslim and a lot of Americans distrust Muslims. He’s also very left wing on some issues which turns off centrists but also centrist in some areas which can turn off far left people.

On the other hand, he does have impressive favorables despite a enormous amount of money being spent attacking him. He got through the most expensive vicious dem primary and since has weathered like 150 million spent against him crammed in half a year and is still net positive.

His campaign choices have been half smart and half dumb. He skillfully leveraged his medical career to appeal to healthcare concerns which dems poll best on and deflected the pressure from Stevens to condemn things, but he also campaigned with Hasan Piker which let them put all his baggage on him and keeps posting cringey dances on tiktok that makes him seem unserious but maybe counters the fearmongering.

Edited 2 minutes ago by Raze