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For the good of his pocket book
I’m in NY and I will NOT be voting for Schumer in the primaries. Hopefully, I’m not the only one with this mindset. The only Democrat that I see reflecting my outrage is Jasmine Crockett. All the established politicians, like Hakeem Jeffries, act as if they’re clenching down to hold in a barbiturate enema.
You’ll still help whoever wins the primary defeat the Republican party, though, right?
Well, I’m not voting RepubliKKKan but I don’t think the current crop of Democrats can beat them. We need new players.
When did they say anything about that? You people are so annoying and obnoxious.
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I have never in my life seen a Cheeto used so well (to make a point)
you can eat them too
Wouldn’t it be more accurate to show the democrats giving cops and border patrol boatloads of money? They were elected on a mandate of reform the police but instead they just gave them shit loads of money and built them fake towns so that the cops could get their rocks off imagining hurting citizens.
It’s hilarious to see people scapegoat the democrats so much.
What have you done to prevent this?
Progressives constantly bitch and moan but haven’t organized anything themselves so this is literally the kettle calling the pot black.
As an outside observer, I think a certain Mr. Sanders could have provided a decent alternative candidate but the democrats decided against him (in a not very democratic way IIRC). Instead, they opted for the flawed political triangulation tactic and took a right politics drift, to their own peril.
No offence but Bernie wasn’t able to win a primary so why would he have a chance in the general?
Different base population, different set of candidates, different election. Apples and oranges. In comparison, French elections have a sort of “primary” (the actual election) with a follow-up between the two strongest candidates across parties about who becomes the president. The odds there sometimes look quite different from the first round. I mentioned Sanders here because I remembered something fishy was going on during the primaries in 2016 which took Sanders off the board, despite a decent support. But Wikipedia suggests that might have been a Russian spin against Clinton? Hard to tell.
Anyway, my broader point is that you can’t run triangulation politics against fascists. This doesn’t work and political scientists have been pretty clear about that for a long time. Hence both Clinton and Biden were pretty short-sighted and weak strategic choices. The democratic party didn’t stand for anything in the past decade, apart from “not the orange guy”. There needs to be a visionary, authentic alternative people can identify with. I’m not sure such a thing can meaningfully develop top-down from inside the political establishment. I have no solution.
I have no solution.
You should have just left it at this.
I better never see you critisize anthing you can’t fully fix by yourself then you misanthrope.
I’m sick of people who think the solution to today’s problem is inventing a time machine and going back nine years to run a guy who couldn’t win a primary as the presidential candidate.
I’m sick of people who think the DNC primary is a fair contest despite multiple courts saying it’s a private party who can make up rules however it wants.
One might note that nobody suggested running Bernie today. If you expect people to forget that the conservative wing of the Dems is responsible for the rise of Trump in several important ways, that isn’t going to happen.
You specifically asked for followup
Progressive candidates either tote the Democratic Party line or the party drops all support for them instead pushing all that money to a centrist candidate.
Then the democratic leaning media runs articles against those progressives saying stuff like “will progressives sink democratic electoral chances”.
So?
Start a progressive party or take over the DNC like the MAGAs took over the RNC.
If they could do it why can’t the progressives?
You’re either a troll or have zero understanding of the modern American political system…
Both
Did MAGA not take over the RNC?
And the DNC is doing everything possible to prevent a progressive take over. On the flip side, RNC has welcomed MAGA with open arms (and wallets).
Not initially. Fox News was against Trump initially. The whole GOP establishment was against him. He took over by the GOP base consistently voting for him. There was an actual takeover that happened.
So now you’re agreeing with me?
This guy with his history of comments on Lemmy of all people defending Democrats really tells you everything you need to know about the current batch of Democrats doesn’t it?
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why what did i do :(
I’m the Dem with a cheeto lock for a reason
oh i see, some visual storytelling going on here
amerika yaaaaa
I think instead of “democrats” it should say “Americans”. The resistance seems pitiful.
no, democrats 100% is correct. see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz3Rf820ozE
I watched the video and I stick with “Americans”. You can’t watch that video and solely blame the democrats for that. C’Mon now.
i never said SOLELY but “Over the past four years, no group has played a bigger role in dismantling the resistance to right-wing extremism than the Democratic party.” is literally a quote in the video.
cMoN NoW
Which I disagree with. The grifters who were in the movement were extremely damaging.
