• eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      7 days ago

      They voted to censure Rep Tlaib for asking that the US stop helping to bomb her family members.

      Democrats are fascists with a BLM sticker and a rainbow flag, and they’re busy scraping off the rainbow flag.

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        Democrats are fascists with a BLM sticker and a rainbow flag, and they’re busy scraping off the rainbow flag.

        A lot of them are like that, but not enough aren’t.

        Which is why we need to get dirty money out of Dem primaries, regardless of what Nancy Pelosi says.

        To paraphrase Kendrick:

        Few solid Dems left, but it’s not enough

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          1. Nice Kendrick reference

          2. We need to do away with the party, but unfortunately building a new broad front would take years.

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            Strongly disagree. Look at how effective the Tea Party was at changing the entire GOP. We just need people to be as outraged by what’s currently happening as the Tea Party was about having a black president.

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                With worse infrastructure. The entire point of stealing a party is to use what they’ve built.

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                  Worse infrastructure is laughable, their entire party infrastructure makes it so that bad faith actors don’t undermine their goals, and honestly, I might join them.

                  In the topic of stealing a party, The Green Party isn’t worth stealing.

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                    Worse infrastructure is laughable

                    Do you seriously want to tell me that the PSL has worse infrastructure than the green party?

                    their entire party infrastructure makes it so that bad faith actors don’t undermine their goals

                    Their entire party is bad faith actors. They’re a tiny party with even tinier primaries, and unlike democrats, they actually have primaries.

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            7 days ago

            The party is a dictatorship where the chair has final say on almost everything and zero accountability to anyone.

            Luckily we got a decent chair now.

            We 100% need to change how that’s set up, but the party just took his biggest step left in 30 years.

            Ken Martin doesn’t push progressive policy per say, but he gives voters want they want, and they want progressive policy from charismatic candidates. Just not standing in the way of voters would have beat trump last election.

            We don’t need a whole lot more from the party.

            • Intergalactic@lemmy.world
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              Unfortunately, their chair isn’t good at all.

              He has stated that the Democrats would take money from “good billionaires”

              There is no such thing.

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                LMAO.

                The fact that one comment during an interview, during the campaign where he had to get elected by the voting members of the DNC is the only thing out of decades of politics that people can latch onto to call this guy a neoliberal just makes me all the more confident.

                Saying “no, there are no good billionaires” in response to that question would have prevented him from ever becoming chair…

                Like, bro gave a bullshit wiffle waffle answer to a gotcha question, and that’s seriously the worst anyone can say about him?

                Like, just the fact that’s all the dirt that can be dug up over his long history with the party is enough for me to say he’s the furthest left chair in decades.

                My favorites example tho is when he camped out overnight with pro-Gaza protestors who were protesting the DNC so he could ensure their right to protest was protected and police wouldn’t hassle them.

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              7 days ago

              They always take those left steps when they are not in a position of power to do anything with it. Then quickly shift back to the right when they are.

    • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
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      7 days ago

      Rep. Ami Bera of California

      Rep. Ed Case of Hawaii

      Rep. Jim Costa of California

      Rep. Laura Gillen of New York

      Rep. James Himes of Connecticut

      Rep. Chrissy Houlahan of Pennsylvania

      Rep. Marcy Kaptur of Ohio

      Rep. Jared Moskowitz of Florida

      Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington

      Primary ALL OF THEM!