I love the hate the DNC gets now. I’m also confused how the DNC’s mandate isnt to be entirely apolticial.
Of course not. They can’t accept that their most passionate base actually wants progressive platforms, not centrist pop pandering. Dems are too worried about being “safe” and trying to steal votes from conservative-centrists. If they actually showed bills and votes to invigorate the actual progressives, they just might get some loyal backing.
Gavin Newsom may sound smart, but he’s got his hands in your pockets stealing your money to feed the rich, kinda like the current emperor in chief.
Y’all know there’s still house and some Senate elections coming up next year right?
You know what would show America and the Democrats (and Republicans for that matter) that Americans are finally serious about a 3rd party candidate? Supporting and electing 3rd party candidates in the House and Senate.
Ok, I try to be polite, and I generally agree you don’t win arguments by saying shitty things, but whoever downvoted this is either a bad actor or has rocks for brains. I’m sorry to be so crass, but it needed to be said.
If only there were elections being held between 2025 and 2028 with less at stake than a presidential election. That way Americans on the left and right could come together and prove to the establishment parties that they would actually show up to vote for a 3rd party candidate for a presidential election.
It would be such a shame if angry Americans used this information to get involved in local politics and promoted ethical candidates who weren’t purchased by a corporation ASAP
DNC will throw the election before putting a progressive into the race
This is why the primary will be so important, and why Biden basically handed the win to Trump by pushing Harris instead of having a primary.
If it is not Bernie, AOC I ain’t going to vote. Also ain’t voting for anyone funded by AIPAC.
AOC is a clear choice, I’d say Bernie but I’m already tired of old people in power.
AOC is young, in touch with actual issues, in touch with the generations that are moving the economy, knows the struggle since she used to be a waitress and so far I haven’t seen her go crazy on anyone else’s agenda or buying stocks and enriching herself beyond measure like damn old hag Pelosi.
Sadly, you are correct. Neither Kamala nor Gavin can win. But I’d prefer Kamala to Gavin, which is how bad Gavin is.
We all like AOC here on Lemmy, but are enough of the old ass “liberals” going to join us so she can actually get elected? Seems highly unlikely to be honest.
I’d love to see it happen though. That’s what primaries are for. The Dems should try one of those. It’s been a while.
Can we do ranked choice primaries?
The great thing about the orange turd- gurgler, is that he’s so bad, even the bad democrats might be popular enough to elect in enough numbers to have the majority to get things done - if our republic survives.
My thinking is that we need the dems that we can get into office, then work on replacing them with better ones, as we go. The moderates definitely need to go away… enough with the “meeting in the center,” when the center is always moving to the right.
The voters need to have realistic expectations as well - we’ve been in decline since the '70s - it won’t be fixed in 4 or 8 years, but nothing is going to be fixed at all, so long as corporations and billionaires are in charge.
I’m a progressive, but also a pragmatist and a realist, and I find these kind of complaints unhelpful and naive. Politics is a blood sport and it always has been. No one is going to hand AOC the reins of power. She has to win them, and her opponents aren’t going to play fair. This is, sadly, how the game is played. Don’t mourn. Organize!
The supervillains are still in charge thinking up ways to destroy anyone and anything opposing them to ensure the superiority of their greedoid ultraconservatism, while the supposedly “enlightened” people who are supposed to fight those bastards as a united front are instead fighting over recriminations, ideological rivalries, and supposed levels of moral purity.
Yes, let’s get preemptively angry at those not currently in power for something we assume they’ll do!
