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[–] [email protected] 158 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Yup. Democratic leadership would rather trump win than run a left-facing campaign and candidate. What's the definition of insanity?

[–] [email protected] 96 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Democratic leadership has to call corporate donors before they can make any decisions

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

100%

Here in deep-red Missouri the $15 minimum wage passed in a landslide, but for some reason, all Democrats wanted to talk about was tax cuts that no one thinks they'll actually pass anyway.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

Democratic consultants. The problem.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

The Democratic Party is basically dead now. Time to sit back and watch the MAGAs eat themselves. Clock ticking.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

Well that’s one way to look at this positively.

How do you see this going down? Internal power struggles and tantrum hissy fits?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Magas will eat a lot of good people first, unfortunately. And the show will be extended over many years. Another enemy or bad group will always be found.

The "and then they came for" moment won't hit critical mass for aomg time if ever. It's terrifying to think how long an authoritarian group could maintain power with the technology and military power available today.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The Democratic Party is basically dead now. Time to sit back and watch the MAGAs eat themselves. Clock ticking.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

Democratic Party : Republican Party :: Washington Generals : Harlem Globetrotters

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Democratic leadership is those of us who do the thankless work of playing politics to help others.

Find something different. You won’t. Sure Progressive Party Whatever - they’ll run into the exact same thing. You’re re-inventing the wheel because you don’t know that.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

That’s…

I’m not sure we’re all talking about the same thing. The Democratic Party has been playing to the “center” longer than any of us have been alive, while shunning, excommunicating, and often literally arresting anyone to the left. And all that accomplishes and has ever accomplished is the Overton window shifting further and further right. Kamala was running on bragging about hiring “the good” republicans while sidestepping the massive issues anyone even slightly progressive wanted to talk about (and what almost surely turned off a huge portion of voters), which is the ongoing genocide in Gaza. She finally said the day before the election that she would do “everything in her power to end the war,” which is still not nearly enough when discussing a fuckin genocide.

So many of the people I know are leftists. None of them voted for her because of it. Sure, the democrats and liberals I know did—my parents, for example. But they have voted democrat the entire time I’ve been alive. They are solid, reliable Dem voters. They’re not the people she needed to appeal to either—but keeping them was certainly more important than any mythical “centrist/swing” voter.

Everyone that was arrested for sitting in school buildings protesting the genocide, everyone who is sickened by what we’re seeing. Who couldn’t stomach voting for someone who didn’t feel the need to say it was a genocide that sickens them. THOSE are the people the dems gain when, like in 2020, things are so bad they hold their noses and increase turnout, and they’re the votes they lose when they hold office and maintain the genocidal status quo.