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Funny there is no mention of primarying corporate Democrats with progressives while they’re at it. “Vote blue, no matter who” won’t cut it if corporate Democrats will remain and keep enabling fascists. It’s time for a full progressive takeover.
It’s always both. Obviously try and get the most progressive blue candidate you can every time, but corporate Democrats are still at least marginally better than full-throated fascists.
It being “time” for a progressive takeover doesn’t really mean much if progressives aren’t running, or primary voters aren’t supporting them. Do you have a plan to make either of those things happen?
Organising grassroots and educating people on having a better leftist alternative. This always starts at the community level. The American ancestors who ended the Gilded Age and elected the Roosevelts would be rolling in their graves at how their descendants became so spineless and forget to mobilise!
You’re not wrong, but haven’t we already been doing that for, like, a century?
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Or, you know… Burn it all down.
Sub in the other capitalists. That’ll fix it.
Doing nothing, that always works.
Educating yourself on the atrocities commited by both the Democrats and Republicans would have you not so excited about a “blue wave.” They’re just the other right wingers.
You will not be saved by a ruling class bootlicker.
Your ignorance is only surpassed by your indifference to human suffering. Your opinion means nothing to me.
The status quo will get the job done. Do the same and hope for a different result. Best of luck.
The status quo in america is white supremecy. Pick any direction that leads away from that and you can say you have a conscious.
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You’re completely right, but it is still better than the current option by most measures for sane people.
It’s better for the locals, I suppose. Back to slowly boiling the working class, but equally terrible for the rest of the world. Especially the global south.
There is a left wing in the democratic party - it is possible to get organized and help it win over the conservative wing.
There is no left wing. There is a center wing though.
huh, I have to say, this is the opposite experience of what I have on the rest of the internet. Finally I can get into arguments with some leftists :)
Which Democrats do not support capitalism? There’s no such thing as a capitalism supporting left wing. Bernie is probably the closest thing, though not a Democrat, and even he is pro-capitalism.
So wanting back to the post-war consensus is centrism in your book?
When has the US been post war? Edit: I understand what you’re sayimg now. And you’re looking for ethical capitalism, which is a weird thing to say. In other words, ethical-exploitation. Doesn’t seem like a real thing, yeah?
The only reason FDR caved as much as he did is because the US had a strong communist presence. They’ve fixed that. Your longing for the past is akin to conservatism, no?
Finally someone who gets that the New Deal was nothing more than a concession to keep the people appeased while the rest of the state apparatus systematically dismantled the “communist threat” and the very foundations that allowed the growing unrest to manifest into effect resistance over the decades to come.
alright, I’ll give you a better answer.
I wouldn’t say I’m looking to make capitalism ethical, as much as I’m looking to make it harmless. The big problem is the high and increasing inequality, that eventually makes free societies impossible.
As for FDR: whatever. I neither engage in, nor approve of, political hero-worship. His legacy is complex, including maybe even the image of the führer-president that Trump is exploiting right now.
I’ll take that as a yes. Fair enough.
Maybe get rid of some of the neo-libs too while you’re at it.
This doesn’t seem to be much of a narrative that the post wants it to be…
One, this is a state seat, nothing to do with the federal government.
Second, it’s a seat that has been thoroughly blue looks like. GOP hadn’t even bothered to run a candidate in over a decade, and then they only got 19% of the vote. The GOP candidate showed 38% this time around, which is actually stronger performance than they had before.
Per an article “have historically supported Democrats at the state and local level, but have shifted toward Republicans in federal elections”, this is a continuation. If anything, concerning that this is the strongest GOP result for that seat, even though they still lost…
In terms of special elections, the three that are scheduled are pretty much the only ones we are going to see, and all signs point to 2 going GOP and 1 going democrat, resulting in a 220:215 in favor of republicans. Even if they flipped the two GOP seats then it’s 218:217. More resignations/deaths could shift things more, but no more special elections since it’s so close to the general election now.
Even if, hypothetically, 10 republicans just up and resigned and the vacancies gave the democrats the majority… then what? They do another toothless impeachment? They shake their head disapprovingly at Trump deploying ICE to strategic polling places?
You’d need to see 2/3rds of the senate be willing to go against Trump before anything could realistically stop the worst of the Trump presidency.
In summary, the republicans need to also be against trump not just the Democrats.
Yes, and critically Senate Republicans, 38% of senate republicans would have to go against Trump to move the needle, and if that hasn’t happened by now, it’s hard to imagine a scenario where that would happen.
Reporting this is them saying “Democrats are doing fiiine, stay home no need to vote”
“…holding the seat…”
So nothing changed?
Except purges are a textbook step in dictatorship. Every Republican who leaves over ideological differences with the coup will be replaced by a loyalist. We are going full Russia at light speed.
