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    Every fucking day it’s anothe democrat texting me, begging me for more money I don’t have.

    I don’t have $5 you fucks. You stole it when you raised my taxes, gave me shit, and then bailed out more billionaire cronies.

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    America is a house on fire… the Republican party is throwing gas and fireworks at it, the Democrats have no idea how to fight a fire and are not sure if it’s their job to put out the fire.

    You still should vote Democrat but immediately after continue to fight for complete reform

    Having said that and witnessing American’s reaction to their house being set on fire was basically nothing, I am not holding my breath they won’t re-elect republicans and give them a bigger gas canister to finish the job

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      Democrats are watching it burn and enjoying the show, while pretending to care by writing strongly worded letters and slamming social media posts, so that when the time comes, they can take over the government and do nothing to improve things, because they serve the same billionaire overlords pushing fascism.

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        Sure… but after decades of apathy, those are the only choices Americans have left. So they either die with the republicans or buy a bit of time with the democrats while they get out of this emergency

        As I said, they are likely to do nothing so America is basically over

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    Yah I never for that. Republicans in power they can do anything. Democrats in power well we have to follow protocol and tradition and nothing gets done.

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      Democrats will brag about the number of people they deport and regimes they change when they’re in charge

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    I voted for Biden because he’s a stuffed suit, not in spite of it. Why would I want the US government to be more effective?

    Trump changed the Republican party from within, seems like a smarter method to accomplish one’s goals. Become a politician and join the Democrats.

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    The number of negative and/or “just vote for democrats idiot” comments shows how brainwashed and doomed Americans really are.

    Nobody’s saying that voting for the just a tiny bit slightly less evil party is wrong and you shouldn’t do it. What people are saying is that it will solve nothing and lead to no real change. At best it’ll result in Americans being ever so slightly less abused on a daily basis. Which is of course better, but still shit. That’s the main point.

    To most people, it’s fine to vote for liars, scumbags, criminals, and pedophiles, as long as they’re the least bad available candidates. However, if you’re struggling with admitting that they are indeed liars, scumbags, criminals, and pedophiles, and should be at best put in prison, then I’m sorry to say, but there may not be hope for you.

    Even if Americans managed to get rid of the entire republican party, and have a government purely made of democrats, it’d still be a far-right government, one of the worst on the planet. Let that sink in. All Americans deserve better. As a matter of fact, all humans deserve a better American government, since it unfortunately impacts us all. But you’re not gonna get anything close to a resonably good one by voting. It’s just not happening in our lifetimes. Likely not even our children’s. If you genuinely wish for a decent life, then you can either leave the country or prepare for mass riots. I know it sucks, but that’s the reality Americans - and everybody else - live in.

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      Choosing not to vote because “both parties bad” empowers the GOP and teaches the Dems to drift right because they keep losing to conservative candidates.

      You move the party left by voting in the primaries for the progressive candidates. But you also need to vote for whoever gets nominated, even if they’re not progressive enough. Choosing not to vote for the Dems is beneficial to the Republicans, and supports everything that’s happening right now.

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        Choosing not to vote because “both parties bad” empowers the GOP

        • If you don’t vote, it’s your fault that we lost

        • We don’t owe you anything

        Dems need to pick one

        John Fetterman being a perfect example of this dynamic in action

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          If more of people bothered to fucking vote in the primaries instead of bitching about who was selected, then Fetterman wouldn’t be in office.

          The hard reality is we have a 2-party system and choosing to not participate doesn’t accomplish anything but empower those who least-represent your interests.

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        Hi friend, seems you’re a little confused. 👋 Voting blue empowers the GOP. 🐘 Hope that helps 😃

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          Amazing how people just ignore the damage Lieberman, Feinstein, Sinema, Biden, and the Clintons have done to the party and the very idea of liberalism over the last forty years.

          From raising the Confederate Flag in San Francisco to authoring the precursor of the Patriot Act to locking up millions of black and brown people for victimless crimes to good old fashioned corporate selling out, these slimeballs have worked hand in glove with their “moderate” Republican colleagues to plunder out country and commit genocide abroad.

          How many times does Donald Trump have to pardon Henry Cuellar before people figure out they’re all on the same team.

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            How manybtimes do people have to butch about it before voting in the fucking primaries to move the party left?

            I’m in Texas so am more familiar with Texas numbers, and the good news is that Democratic participation in the primaries this year was about triple what it was for the 2022 or 2018 midterm cycles, driven by a particularly tight Senate primary that had received national attention due to the administration’s reactions to Volvert and The View.

            The bad news is that even with the incredible relative growth, we’re looking at about 10% of registered voters engaging in the primaries.

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              How manybtimes do people have to butch about it before voting in the fucking primaries to move the party left?

              Primaries have been hot this year precisely because lots of people are invested in seeding the next round of general elections with ideologically aligned candidates.

              The problem is that it’s not just progressives wrangling for control. Quite a few conservative/corporate democrats are also heavily invested in winning these races. They’ve got a ton of money behind them, in anticipation of Dems retaking the House in 2027. And there are a number of foreign governments all putting their own fingers on the scales to make sure their interests are represented in our World Police State run out of DC.

              The bad news is that even with the incredible relative growth, we’re looking at about 10% of registered voters engaging in the primaries.

              I’ve seen estimates much closer to 20-30%, depending on state. Even then, a lot of these races are very localized and not well understood thanks to the geographic and population size of the districts in question. Look at the Texas statewide races. The only candidates that got any meaningful attention were the Senate primary between Talarico (a person you probably never heard of until Colbert had him on) and Crockett (a Congresswoman largely popularized through her appearances on the Congressional investigatory committee on UAFs). The gubernatorial race - arguably the most important statewide race on the ballot - went straight under the radar. A bunch of (heavily gerrymandered) US House seats got even less attention thanks to the expensive media markets and expansive voting districts. Literally who do you vote for in the TX-35 US House race? Do you recognize any of these people? Then you’ve got the outright uncontested positions - Texas AG, Texas Land Commissioner, Comptroller, a bunch of judges.

              I’m friends with the guy running for the railroad commissioner down in Texas, and he’s an incredible progressive politician. He’s got my vote 1000x over. But this is arguably the third most powerful position in the state. Rosenthal took it totally uncontested. If he wins statewide in November, it won’t be thanks to an enormous campaign war chest or high name recognition. He’ll ride in on a Vote Blue No Matter Who landslide.

              You need large party structures to introduce people to these candidates and advocate on their behalf. In much of the US, this party structure has been neglected if not outright dismantled. This isn’t a voter problem, it is a party problem. And it is one progressives/socialists can exploit, if they can rally the numbers and the financials to do it.

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    Vote independent or “3rd party”.

    Stop voting for the purple party.

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    Vote 3rd or 4th - doesn’t matter if they have no goals or agendas, what matters is throwing the Sith duo off the throne to get them to properly reshuffle their ranks.

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    This is propaganda. Vote blue. Some of y’all are real messed up in your echo chambers here, get some reality.

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      Good democrats? LOL

      These are in single digits and there aren’t enough of them to make a difference when they are outnumbered 1 to 100.

      Both parties are fascist and need to go and at least 50 new parties need be created. Each state should have at least one party.

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        Hey, there’s less combative ways to put things, not even saying this directly for you but ostensibly we’re on the same side, can we go back to taking to each other like human beings.

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        Good democrats? LOL

        Good people exist in these parties. They’re the work horses of the party.

        Any time one of them goes for a significant leadership position, the rest of the party leadership turns on them like an autoimmune disease.

        Kat’s a good example of this. Mamdani is another. The LA City Council has a bunch of goodies. But they are in the slim minority.

        Both parties are fascist

        Plenty of lay members and low level staffers are liberal, progressive, or even outright socialist.

        If you’re not going to support them when they try and take power, might as well just leave the whole NATO block and become a Sandinista or Chavismo.

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          Seems like you haven’t read my comment, because that’s exactly what I said, just not in such nice words.

          Both parties are rotten to the core, a few good apples in the democratic party won’t save the USA from falling further.

          You need to look at the reasons how the USA ended up in such a position to begin with.

          There’s no saving America when there are only two parties and both are fascist and controlled by billionaires.

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            a few good apples in the democratic party won’t save the USA from falling further.

            A few rotten apples in the democratic party gave us the modern day DLC. These movements all have to plant their seeds somewhere. And its nihilistic - and deeply ahistorical - to believe these institutional organizations are immune to change. The Whigs very famously collapsed, almost overnight, after the 1852 election and gave birth to Radical Republicanism. The Kennedy/LBJ administration dragged Dixiecrats out of the dark ages, kicking and screaming.

            You need to look at the reasons how the USA ended up in such a position to begin with.

            Most of them are geographic and historical. We’re physically isolated from the hotbed of historical conflicts, pandemic wiped out the native population creating an abundance of free real estate, and all this happened at the advent of industrialization.

            There’s no saving America when there are only two parties

            In most of the US, there’s really only one functioning party and one rump opposition. Material opposition has to come from somewhere. Traditionally, that is via the party structure. New parties can emerge from the cadavers of the old. And the DSA is as good a vehicle for an alternative party structure as anything I’ve seen to date.

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    Americans need to realize that the reason MAGA took over the GOP is because they actually primaried their incumbents.

    Vote Blue no matter who doesn’t preclude keeping sitting democrats accountable by replacing them if once they inevitably get too cozy.

    Everyone saying the democrats need to do this, or the democrats are part of the problem, need to shift the narrative towards replacing the Do Nothing Democrats, not expecting them to change.

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      MAGA took over because the next stage of fascism is another hard shift to the right with liberals in lock step behind them to fill that void. You cant vote your way out of fascism

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      Vote third party! It influences the major parties, who will REFUSE to act until they lose votes over an issue. Of course your candidate won’t be elected, that’s not the goal.

      Check out the history of the minimum wage; Socialists have been fighting for such since the 1910s, and they are still fighting.

      Check out the history of marijuana legalization; bOtH pArTiEs were delighted to throw hundreds of thousands of people into prison. The greens and libertarians have fought for legalization since the 1970s.

      Why don’t you know this long history? Because it’s almost never reported on.

      Vote for who you support, and remember that FORTY PERCENT of all voters are now Independents, the major parties have only 30% each and they will continue to lose voters, and they will get angrier about it every year.

      You are not alone.

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        What did the person you’re replying g to say? It’s super sus that the mods removed it…

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          REMINDER: There is no viable 3rd party in the United States of America and currently there is no 3rd party even trying to be. Meaning there will be no 3rd party that can win a national election anytime in the foreseeable future. DO NOT vote 3rd party in a national election. That is how felon rapist pedophiles take control and strip our rights and rob us blind, as we are currently experiencing. If you’re going to vote 3rd party, do it in local/state elections until a time at which a 3rd party has gained enough traction to actually win a national election which, again, will not be anytime in the foreseeable future. Be smart.

          reason: No lesser evil bullshit

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        Even where there is no prospect of achieving their election the workers must put up their own candidates to preserve their independence, to gauge their own strength and to bring their revolutionary position and party standpoint to public attention. They must not be led astray by the empty phrases of the democrats, who will maintain that the workers’ candidates will split the democratic party and offer the forces of reaction the chance of victory. All such talk means, in the final analysis, that the proletariat is to be swindled. The progress which the proletarian party will make by operating independently in this way is infinitely more important than the disadvantages resulting from the presence of a few reactionaries in the representative body. If the forces of democracy take decisive, terroristic action against the reaction from the very beginning, the reactionary influence in the election will already have been destroyed.

        Karl Marx, Address of the Central Committee to the Communist League London, March 1850

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          We reached the same conclusion, I think it’s obvious!

          Meanwhile, many can’t imagine voting without the “we won!!!” cookie, because they can’t look at anything logically and they are ignorant of history.

          If it wasn’t for third parties, my state would STILL be locking thousands of people up. Over 50 years of fighting for legalization, none of it by major parties.

          Most people think politics is simply voting, because they’re lazy and easy to manipulate. Join your party (any party). Become a precinct committee officer or the equivalent, maybe even collect signatures for local initiatives? There’s lots of work to do.

          A few people make a big difference when they actually work for a common goal; after all, 95% choose to sit at home and hurl insults on the internet instead.

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        Don’t forget all the times both parties have felt the need copy from third party platforms out of fear of losing votes.

        Green New Deal was taken from the Green party and softened up to not offend the corporations who fund the big parties.

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      I fucking despise that this is right.

      But the last statement is correct, that’s how the Republicans are doing the most damage. Your book bans, religion being crammed into schools, your laws that enable protesters to be driven over, anti-lgbtq laws…anything not federal is state and local. The republicans have weaseled their way into local positions of power that affect us every bit as directly. Push for the alternatives locally when you can.

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      until a time at which a 3rd party has gained enough traction to actually win a national election

      So you want us to do all the work so you can slide in and ride our coattails as if you always supported it?

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    Vote blue no matter who after we purposely screw over the progressive candidate and put in a milque toast corporatist going after the former Tump supporter votes.

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      Can I have a laugh at who supposedly is the ‘progressive’ yet part of the blue side of the Uniparty?

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      Vote blue no matter who

      In the situation in which we find ourselves? Absolutely.

      Wouldn’t be where we are right now if we did.

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        Wouldn’t be where we are right now

        We’d be happily contributing to genocide in Gaza not suffering any oil price hikes smh

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        Given they absolutely do not fully leverage what power they have when they have it, I fail to see how giving them more power consistently over the years would have changed anything. They’re sponsored by the same corporate interests as the Republicans.

        They’re basically the same party, but with a nicer face. They’re the good cop to the bad cop, but they’re both cops. You’re not going to get improvement if you just keep electing the nice cops. They’re still just cops.

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          They’re basically the same party

          That’s the most asinine thing I’ve heard all day. This administration legit has talked about putting people in work camps, and you’re over here yelling “bOtH sIdEs”.

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            Republicans are putting people in work camps. Democrats are collectively doing scarcely little about it.

            CLEARLY these groups are bitter rivals, fighting tooth and nail, not at all just one acting as controlled opposition. You all just have to vote harder next time, right? Then they’ll try harder!

            I can’t believe you lot can’t see this. The rest of us do and my decade in your land just drove the point home. Do they not teach you about the events that led up to Nazi Germany?

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              Do they not teach you about the events that led up to Nazi Germany?

              Why do that when if you educate people, they might ask too many questions. Vote Blue No Matter What They Support!

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            Our country is covered in work camps and has been for decades, open your eyes and see.

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                Well, in my personal opinion the USA shouldn’t be forcing prisoners to work in camps with no pay, all the while claiming that we don’t have work camps.

                But I’m a stickler

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                  Oh they pay them, usually a few cents to dollars on the hour, well below minimum wage. But that’s a way different thing than putting people in death camps, which everyone knows that’s what’s being talked about in this administration. You’d have to be extremely naive to think otherwise.

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          If you’re not allergic to data, take a look at the last time Democrats controlled all three branches of government and everything they accomplished in that short span of time. Then when you’re done with that eat shit for echoing russian propaganda without even the tiniest bit of verification.

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            Like the ACA which was going to be universal healthcare originally until they decided to try working with the Republicans who gutted it then not vote for it?

            Edit: Let’s not forget they were opposed to gay marriage until it started getting more support, it was Al Gore and his wife behind the movement to censor and control music produced, Biden supported more funds for police as well as military equipment in addition to making student loans harder to discharge. Yeah, the Dems have done a great job thus far, can’t wait to see how they status quo at best more.

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              You don’t get it. Here’s how it works.

              My husband really loves me. Once we went on holiday and had a marvelous time. I had to save and pay for it, but I think that’s fair: just like he says, he can only be a good husband if I support him. He’s often gone for weeks and leaves me to care for everything, but he’s doing the best he can. He just gets so much flak from his brother at the family business that he can’t do any better! The company is doing well but my husband says that money needs to go to their investors, so I’m working two jobs to support us. He’s asked me to start an OnlyFans so he can afford a car to help his new lady friend! He’s so sweet.

              Not all of his family is as great as him, though. His brother treats me poorly, taking money from our home and telling me I need to submit to my husband and home school the children from the Bible. My husband told me that his brother is going through a hard time and if we pushed back too much it could wreck the family business. He told me I need to try harder so he can try to protect me and that if I don’t support him no matter what, it’ll get worse and I’ll have nobody to blame but myself. His friends and family all agree. They’re so smart!

              I’m trying harder. It seems worse, but he says we’re almost there and I just have to give it my all! When it seems too difficult, I remember that glorious holiday. He surprised me with a stay at one of America’s finest luxury resorts: the Motel 6 in Jacksonville, Florida! They even had a pool! My favorite memory was when he brought me a gourmet meal made by Ronald McDonald, an American celebrity chef, and let me stay all by myself while he went boating with his mates. I even saw in his email that they paid a real escort service to take them! I saw on its website that even the fishing guides are beautiful in America. He came back tired, sweaty, and smelling of fish. He said they lost the catch, but they tried again the next day, this time with different guides! My man never gives up!

              I know things will be better like that again. Someday. I just have to try even harder, no matter what.

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              In 72 days they passed an insane amount of progressive legislation, and you minimize these accomplishments down to a single bill that you then completely dismiss because it’s less than perfect. Fact is the ACA made healthcare more affordable for American citizens and improved our every day life. It’s a shame they weren’t able to pass a public option due to holdouts like Leiberman, but this attitude of letting perfect be the enemy of even the slightest improvement is exactly why we keep sliding backwards.

              The rest of your comment is completely unrelated. I hate Tipper, too. What’s your point? What position of power has she ever held? How is she or anything you’ve mentioned at all related to Obama’s short-lived democratic supermajority?

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                The point is that they’ve not been as progressive as people like you make them out to be. There are some good people in the party but the likes of Schumer and Pelosi needed to have retired a long time ago. You’ll not find much love for the neo-liberals here, they’re still far too conservative of people.

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                  That’s not what I’m saying at all. Or course the party that encompasses every person that’s not a racist sociopath isn’t perfect. Of course ‘vote blue no matter who’ won’t save us in itself. Rather than tear the whole party down with misrepresentations of how ineffective they are, let’s show our support for progressive candidates. Instead of holding Dems to impossible standards then letting them be replaced with Republican dipshits when they fail to meet those standards we need to be pragmatic about putting people on the ladder who can actually accomplish things, and instead of just complaining about the party as a whole we need to actually participate in the process. This leftist apathy towards the Dems only pushes both the party and the country further right. That’s why spreading the kind of propaganda like OPs comment is so highly valued in Putin’s playbook The Foundations of Geopolitics: The Geopolitical Future of Russia. Just like w/ Project 2025 it is all written out for us and yet we still walk right into the trap of petty squabbling while these evil bastards take ever more from us.

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            I already have, but thanks for making a response based on assumptions you couldn’t possibly know.

            I lived in your country for years. It’s not hard to see this from the outside, but so many Americans are clearly indoctrinated into simping for their team. Their “improvements” during that time were solidly center to center-right policy, which was then systematically picked apart thereafter.

            You’re all like abused children with two manipulative abusive parents. Just because one makes dinner on occasion doesn’t mean they’re any good, only that they’re placating you before you do anything effective about their behavior.

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                I’m sorry, you appear to have misspelled “Waaa, someone said something that threatens my years of government indoctrination! I’m going to make up stories about them so I don’t have to think about it! Waaaaaaaaaa!”

                Enjoy your fascism, Alek. Wobbly cowards like you are why it’s so easy for your government to steamroll your population.

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            I did, they couldn’t even manage to pass higher minimum wage. But they did save 50,000 dockworkers!

            Unions fell from 40% to 10% of work force (since 1970s), good job “labor party”

            Not Russian propaganda, fucking facts

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        Sure we would. Trump was a Democrat, he endorsed Hillary Clinton for Senator and played golf with Bill.

        They’re the same people.

        Oddly, a lot of them are members of the Council on Foreign Relations. Kinda weird. Check it out! Obama was in CFR, so was Biden and Bush.

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      Putting Lina Khan as the head of the FTC was a concession the Biden admin made to the more progressive Elizabeth Warren wing of the party.

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        Yes exactly! The Democratic Party was forced to give out a concession to progressives because progressives got involved and help get Biden voted in.

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      Be that as it may, any real progressive movement is almost certainly unintentional, given the ruling parties’ record on everything that isn’t wholly symbolic.

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          The Dems rig their primaries, and not only that, they argued publicly in court that they have every right to do so.

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            If that were true Analilia Mejia wouldn’t have beaten Tom Malinowski. She did.

            If that were true, Cuomo would’ve beaten Mamdani. He didn’t.

            If that were true Janet Mills would be winning her primary. She’s not.

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              Yep, we’ve thwarted them for now, in a few exceptional instances.

              But a few examples don’t matter in the long run. Look at what happened after Ross Perot. They’re already figuring out how to strengthen their hold on our institutions so these few scattered examples aren’t repeatable.

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            The things is that they do have the right to do so. If they were to simply, unilaterally declare which candidates they’re going to put forward that too would be perfectly legal. There is no law mandating primaries. The parties are Independent organisations and how they pick their candidates is entirely up to them. If you were to create a brand new party and pick which candidates you’re putting forward by drawing straws that would be perfectly legal too. Both parties just choose to hold primaries because for one thing it picks a candidate more likely to win and secondly it obscures how much democracy has been undermined in the US. The systems have been rotting well before Trump.

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              All true. It’s an absolutely shit system for 99% of Americans, and it always will be, because this country doesn’t exist for the 99% and never has.

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    Democrats need to go back to combating hypercapitalism, that portion of politics was the most popular in all of US history up until the late 1900s.

    I can explain it like this: The most popular president in history is either George Washington, or Franklin D Roosevelt. Washington could have been king, but set it aside (undisputed badass). FDR was the only president in history to be elected for more than 2 terms (he was elected as president 4 times). FDR helped usher in those “magical” 95%+ tax rates on millionaires and implemented strict business and wealth restrictions. FDR’S “socialist” programs were insanely popular, even amongst non-democrats… no one could successfully run against him. We need someone like that.

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      Democrats need to go back to combating hypercapitalism

      Guessing that, looking at their own stock portfolios and exploding wealth, and now their ability to increase it exponentially by insider betting on prediction markets, that they don’t feel the urgent need to do much of anything about it beyond pretending to give a shit and then trying to curb stomp any real progressive who gains traction, like they did to Mamdani and Graham Platner.

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          They weren’t corrupted by citizens united. This is who theyve always been, they just needed a legislative solution to justify their corruption

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          There are no solutions now, only collapse, and history demonstrates that it will. Mamdani’s election will do some limited good for sure, and that’s great, but the establishment will learn from that loss and determine how to prevent it in the future, just like they did after Ross Perot got so close to the presidency.

          The only power you or I have is local, and I’d advise you to be involved locally as a voter and if you have the time and money, to run yourself. (And, generally, to just do good things in your neighborhood like picking up trash or handing out sandwiches to homeless people.)

          The only exceptions to that are being a billionaire or being willing to go full Player 2 like a certain CEO-hating Italian.

          Primarying might work on the local level, but it won’t work for any national office, because Democrats do not have to play by any rules or honor the result. If they did, we’d have just witnessed the end of a second Sanders presidency, we’d all be making a living wage, and cost of living would actually be affordable.

          I do love your ‘complaining’ comment though, as if I’m the problem.

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            There are no solutions now, only collapse

            Sure.

            Sanders

            2016 Democrat Primary Popular Vote

            Hillary: 16,917,853

            Sanders: 13,210,550

            2020 Democrat Primary Popular Vote

            Biden: 19,080,074

            Sanders: 9,680,121

            I’d love for Bernie Sanders to be president. The bottom line is America wasn’t ready for it. Which is why he lost the popular vote both times.

            The only power you or I have is local

            You realize we locally vote for our representatives in Congress, right? They can be primaried. Primarying members of Congress absolutely changes the face of a party and shifts its values.

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                Why don’t you just delete all my comments?

                Your post history suggests you only post in your own sub as it’s the only place you can silence the people you don’t agree with.

                Big coward vibes.

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                  Im not the one incapable of reading community rules telling you to leave your bullshit liberalism at the door. This very post is about people like you. Liberals that love coming into communist spaces and trying to colonize it with your bullshit, then rant when your colonization isnt tolerated.

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              The US was ready for it, but he was a party sheepdog who was never gonna win. His sole purpose in the elections were to keep disenfranchised voters rounded up in the party until it was too late to form outside coalitions.