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Still thinking that salvation will come from within the system is peak levels of cope.
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Ah yes, an entire population of people who have been disenfranchised by the system absolutely don’t have incentives to rally around dismantling the very institutions that oppress them. Obviously thinking so is delusional.
K bud. Cool story. Just keep voting harder, cause that’s been working so well since fucking Reagan.
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It’s time to take our fuckin country back
Democracy isn’t real
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The most important part of this is the primaries. If we fill these seats with a bunch of Chuck Schumers/Hakeem Jeffries it won’t make a difference. If we fill them with Zohran Mamdanis, on the other hand…
Yupp, don’t let them tell you yet another “compromise” candidate, who “at least isn’t the red elephant person” is gonna cut it. They have been losing elections, they spark no enthusiasm, they are not the “safe option”.
That being said, do organise and network outside of party politics, too. Elections are an important part of everything, they to mould the status quo to some degree, and can heavily shift context of further political work - but getting beyond the structural shit that put Trump into power requires more than that. Joining (preferrably radical) unions, showing up to town halls and the likes, networking with neighbours and friends for mutual aid and emergency support, community defence organisations, civil rights orgs, etc. etc. Both informal and formal organisation is needed wherever you can.
‘They’ say that because turnout for primaries is always abysmal, so candidates who make it to generals are usually centrist.
If progressives actually voted in primaries, they’d have the options they want in generals. But usually, the vast majority who vote in primaries are older, more moderate voters.
Progressive candidates exist, but if you want them, you can’t just vote every 4 years.
Which is probably why the DNC didn’t let us have a primary for the 2024 election. They knew their status quo candidate didn’t have any juice behind her but didn’t want to open the door to that criticism.
There was a primary, and Biden won by a landslide.
Oh quit this horse shit. Nothing worse than an obvious liar.
There literally were primaries. I don’t approve of the outcome, but they did hold primaries.
That was not a primary. That was a ruse to fool people like you.
It literally was a primary. None of us have to approve of the candidates or the result, but they did hold primaries.
It’s not enough to just elect Democrats. Ok technically Democrats would have 67 votes in the Senate if they flipped every single Republican seat, which would be just enough to convict. But that’s not happening.
Instead, there needs to be a movement by anti Trump forces from across the spectrum to primary Republicans and replace them with anti Trump candidates. That effort needs to start now.
Which will never happen because Trump has support of like 95% of Republicans. Still.
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Can’t Trump just issue an executive order saying there’s no more elections, or that Democrats are a terrorist organization and just like, not let any democrats win at all? Judges can’t stop his executive orders anymore… he could just abolish congress at a whim.
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Hahahahahahaha
Not even if the Dems had the vote. I am positive someone would block it for civility reasons.
The dems can not get out of their own way. See Zohran win in NYC.
See Zohran win in NYC.
Why? The headlines on lemmy made me think that he is the good candidate.
Yes he’s wildly popular.
The DNC is considering not giving him the nomination regardless of his win of the primary.
Andrew Cuomo is running independent with his Super PAC that raised billions of dollars.
Bill Ackman is offering billions of dollars to anybody who can ensure that Zohran cannot win. Admittedly this last one’s a bit of a stretch since this dude’s also a trump supporter.
These are examples of the DNC not getting out of its own way.
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