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Democrats Shocked By Success Of Left-Wing Candidate Offering Left-Wing Policies To Left-Wing Voters
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Dems continue to be baffled by the popularity of progressive politicians. They can’t fathom Americans wanting less & less to do with their moderate-right-wing bullshit, while the far-right moves farther & farther right.
It's the foreign influence within the DNC brought in after private money flooded US politics. Get rid of Citizens United and the system will do a lot to correct itself.
What are you, fucking dumb? Do you see how closely the GOP follows Russian politics while the DNC is controlled by AIPAC to be literally supporting genocide. But please. Tell me how these are only domestic problems. Fucking idiot ignoring the actual facts.
If I said the reason you have a bruised face is because you're advertising that anyone is free to punch you for 10 dollars, am I blaming the bruises on the people that punched you or am I blaming you?
It's always foreigners, isn't it? What about the domestic private money flooding US politics? What, because they're American billionaires, it's fine?
When the GOP vacations in Moscow and the DNC allows Palestinians genocide. Yeah, it's totally a domestic based set of issues only. For fuck sake, be real.
No "only" but primarily. Domestic billionaires are the primary enemy, they're the ones who directly benefit from making things like rent and healthcare more expensive, they're the ones who benefit from keeping unions weak and disorganized, they're the ones who benefit from mass surveillance and the police state. Foreign billionaires might benefit from doing those things in their own countries, but for the most part we have more to fear from our own rich people than from other countries' rich people.
Lol, no it really isn't. Citizens vs United was the culmination of decades of the DNC constantly bending over backwards to compromise with conservatives.
Basically in the late 80's and early 90's the legislative grid lock we all know and love today was becoming the status quo. So a strategy of compromising with "moderate" conservatives over policy that benefited aspects of both parties was popularized by the Clinton's.
This "Thirdway politics" led to short term benefits, and allowed the Clintons to get a death grip over the DNC. After a short period conservatives took advantage of this tactic of compromise to drag the DNC further and further to the right. Basically every sitting senator and most of the politicians in the house made their political careers by being the best at compromising with the right.
I was under the impression moderate compromise was code for working to satisfy donor demands. Which wouldn’t be so pressing with meaningful campaign finance reform.
It was definitely touted as one of the benefits of Thirdway politics. However, the real imperative was ending gridlock in Congress. Back in the late 80s and early 90s gridlock was new and actually seen as a big problem, especially after it caused a gov shut down under newt. Bill Clinton basically swept the presidential race for his second term for "solving it".
At best. Usually it just means rank capitulation to fascists.
While you're not wrong, I don't know how we can possibly put that genie back in the bottle.
Stack the court then sue Elon or any PAC.
Cling to power for 40ish years and realign the court as the conservatives die.
Impeachment and removal of corrupt justices, then sue.
1 and 3 are the only remotely realistic but I'm not that optimistic right now.
Vote DNC, it's one of their primary stances. It requires either enough Republicans to cross the aisle to defeat filibuster (never happened never will) or a DNC house majority and senate supermajority to amend the constitution.
Or a simple majority of democrats willing to do away with the filibuster. Won't happen. They like being able to use the filibuster for its only purpose: blocking progressive legislation.
There has been only one filibuster since trump took office for a second time. It wasn't against anything.
Finite refuses to accept anything where the dnc isn't perfect in everything single way.
"I don't think we should bomb children", "I think medial-debt shouldn't be the largest cause of bankruptcy in our country", "People should be able to oppose genocide", "cops shouldn't be able to assault innocent people without consequence"
I think your definition of "perfect" might be a little off, as I think those are all fairly reasonable to ask of the DNC.
If you go though fintites post history it's pretty clear they only care if a dem wins not if any of that is accomplished. Along with being unable to understand why the dems are losing people as they continue to sprint to the right.
If only that was actually what the party was running on.
Yeah, that's a pretty common belief-system among Democrats. I actually copy/pasted my reply from another conversation since I come across it so frequently
Not moderate, not center, firmly not-openly-sociopathic-yet right.
I am a democrat, I've been called a centrist by many a Tankie scum, but I'm not baffled at all and going by the evidence in this article neither is anybody else.
You call everyone to your left tankie scum.
Shhhh he doesn't know how much he's telling on himself when he does that