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No, it's not.
This us moving to the left.
And the very very sad fact is the people who had been running the party for decades knew it was that easy if it worked for Barack Hussein Obama in 2008, it will still work today. But the wealthy donate money to both sides to ensure that's not an option.
That is no longer the case. The failures of the 2024 election made the voting members of the DNC finally pivot away from neoliberals and named a chair who legitimately runs fair primaries and will support anyone with a D by their name in the general.
The big is already done and settled, the people have a party again.
We just have to try and prevent people from falling from billionaire propaganda whose goal is to depress dem.primary turnout.
No matter what happens, we need a shit ton of turnout in the next presidential primary. If a neoliberal somehow wins due to depressed turnout, and they win the general....
Then they'll put the neoliberals back in charge of the DNC and we lose the best chance we've had in over 50 years to actually fix our political system. If it doesn't work this time, it's likely our last chance for a very long time, at least peacefully
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If Republican right wing voters and Democratic left wing voters both want to tax millionaires, unionise, public funding for healthcare and education, then that is the policial centre by definition.
And anyone not for these things is a far right radical, including the neolib wing of the DNC.
My point is that despite how it is portrayed everywhere, the US is not in general a right wing conservative country, and neither are the rural areas.
By the shitty neoliberl "logic" that got us into this exact scenario
It's crazy to still be repeating this, but:
Stop listening to what neoliberals told you. Virtually none of it was based on fact it was just whatever they thought would excuse their behavior.
Doing what you suggested is to the left of both parties last presidential candidate. Voters don't want that because some voters from both parties want it
They want it because voters across the political spectrum approve of progressive policy
That's why the billionaires are so fucking scared
You still don’t understand that your efforts are part of what got Trump elected?
When will you start acting differently?