The Democratic Party is so full of collaborationists. Just shows how democracy and capitalism are incompatible. The bourgeois class just buy the politicians.
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Dem Senator Says Party Needs to Stop Attacking ‘Oligarchy’ and Focus on Losing
FTFY
Fighting Oligarchy resonates greatly. But yes, the dems have focused too much on the culture war in favour of participating in the class war against the working class.
That is definitely something they should put waaaay more focus on. Trump is the cry for help of much of the working class, if people would believe you actually fought FOR the working people in your country, the dems would be unstoppable.
She’s sorta right. ‘Oligarchy’ is a big college word that Joe Bumblefuck doesn’t understand.
Aristocrats is a good word, but again: “duh?”
Therefore Dems just need to start harping about “rich fucking parasites”
Problem Class. Guillotine Fodder.
And you're the problem
The unfalsifiable orthodoxy. Moving to the far-right and appealing to moderate Republicans win elections. If a Democrat wins, it proves that this works, if a Democrat loses, they just hadn't moved far-right enough.
Slotkin is a NEOCON.
THESE are the types of incumbents the DNC does not want primaried?! Holy hell.
"Don't let perfect the enemy of good."
The "good":
woke is what republicans use to attack whatever they dont like, if a democrat uses woke, they arnt really a DEMocrat, alot of them have a veneer of being dem or progressive but they often use buzzwords of right wingers to justify thier positions.
And this is why fascism is winning.
Yep. When the 'resistance' grand plans are to adopt the fascist framing (e.g. that 'woke is weak' and should be surrendered) what's the point in having an opposition party?
what’s the point in having an opposition party?
To co-opt and prevent real opposition.
They're winning because of exactly what she said. There's an issue of perception that people on the left will never fully grasp.
You all have no idea to engage online or publicly in a way that comes off as appealing.
If they quack like a republican and walk like a republican, they're a republican
shes in the wrong party
Unfortunately shes in the right party for this BS. This is what the Dems have been for decades. We need a new party, not a new democrat.
We need a Guillotine Party, to do for the Democratic party what the Tea Party did for the GOP: Take it over from the inside out.
what the Tea Party did for the GOP
Astroturf?
American number 1 priority would be to get out this 2 party system with ranked voting or something.
Primary Democrats
Pass electoral reform in your state.
Electoral Reform Videos
First Past The Post voting (What most states use now)
Videos on alternative electoral systems
Gonna have to fight tooth and nail to get any other system implemented. I say this as someone that voted for RCV in San Diego county. It passed. We have had multiple elections while the lawsuits are working their way through the courts because the San Diego County Registrar of Voters has refused for multiple elections to move off of FPTP. The Mafia has been buying all our government for decades. We're just one of several counties that passed RCV at the county level. From what I understand, LA county and Sacramento county actually passed and implemented it, but I don't actually know. They're the only two counties out of something like 8 counties that voted RCV in, and then actually implemented it.
I am sure this slide to the right will surely work.
Way to advertise what side she's really on.
Outsider opinion: There are two sides who haven’t voted for you, one side who says they’ll vote for you if you change, and another side who says they’ll never vote anything but red. There seems to be an obvious vote to go after.
Capitulation to the right hasn't worked for 20 years. The Third Way is dead and no one respects it.
Not only do we not respect it, we hate it with the heat of a thousand suns
Yep, I voted for the Green Party, for this very reason, and all I get from people is criticism. Democrats who don't oppose fascism aren't worth voting for. If they want to be Blue MAGA they can go after Trump's voters and see where that gets them.
Good for you. What people from the "a vote for third party is a vote for Trump" camp don't understand is that the two-party system is exactly how fascism was able to become standard Republican Party policy in the first place.
A decent multi-party democracy would have enabled traditional non-fascist conservatives to break off into their own party whilst still holding seats in Congress, but instead we've got a whole party full of people who denounced Trump as a fascist way back in 2014 but have now kissed the ring. Likewise parties like the Greens would be able to enjoy votes from the millions of people who agree with all their policies, and be able to have members speaking and voting in Congress.
But the only way any of this can happen is if people stop being so short-sighted about every single election, and stop trying to whip each other into toeing the line of a demonstrably pisspoor party.
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Elissa, stop running your mouth and do it yourself if you have a better idea.
And this is why we need more decent folk around the country like AOC to run for any and all offices.
Fucking nailed it. Also need to get the assholes who think everything is solved with protests to sit the fuck down
The only reason the party has the woke reputation is that empty lip service is really all they had left. People like this need to get a fucking clue. If people want to vote for republicans, they will never ever ever get confused and accidentally vote for democrats just because you mirrored their policies from 12-20 years ago.
empty lip service is really all they had left
That’s all there ever was. They never did jack or shit to help LGBT people in southern states.
more like they never pushed for nationwide voter registration policy, to make sure its easier to vote. of course gop have to block these measures.
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