• Red0ctober@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I really hope that the Dems leadership actually listens for once. Chasing these mythical “reasonable Republicans” has not worked, will not work, and will continue moving the Overton window further right.

    So I’m sure that’s exactly what they’ll do. Could we please get another party that actually represents people???

    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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      Another party won’t help. They have already gotten their fix in. Voting doesn’t matter in the US anymore.

      Voting won’t save us now. Self defense and community defense are all we have left. The system has been stolen by the ultra rich, and they are gleefully enacting as much violence against us all as they want, because they “know” they don’t have to listen to us anymore. The only fix is to Luigi the violent class.

      https://sdvoice.info/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won-here-are-the-numbers/

      https://youtu.be/UgIay64Obcs

      https://youtu.be/t-yr-Mgkhm0

      https://electiontruthalliance.org/eta

      First and last links are the data. The middle links are for us stupid people that need to be told how to read the data in the last link.

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      2 days ago

      Here’s the thing. No.

      We don’t really have two parties. We have oligarchs in control of both parties, and both parties work together to make sure no more parties can exist. They do this by making it seem like the right and the left are opposed to each other, but really both work together to keep you down.

      We can’t fix this with parties. What we need to do is abolish parties. Prevent rich people from consolidating power. Give no small group of power-hungry bastards the ability to control everything. This means a drastic overhaul, and the people in power are not going to give it up willingly. They won’t fight fair, they won’t accept the results of an election unless it goes their way, and they won’t give you an opportunity to win.

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      2 days ago

      I really hope that the Dems leadership actually listens for once

      They had power because the DNC was behind them, and due to the “victory fund” the DNC controlled the purse strings of a lot of state parties.

      The voting members of the DNC listened, and elected a nonbiased DNC chair for the first time in decades.

      So now the senior elected Dems don’t have anyone behind them. Seniority only mattered as tradition, they can all lose their leadership positions now if they lose the next round of leadership votes.

      Could we please get another party that actually represents people???

      We basically did already. The Chair has ultimate control of the party, and we got a drastic change in chair.

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        The Chair has ultimate control of the party, and we got a drastic change in chair.

        Oh “drastic” change huh? First thing the new Dem chair (Martin) did was put up that right-leaning zionist bluedog centrist idiot Slotkin to rebutt trumps state of the union speech. Thats some impressive change. And its been Dems collaborating on republican votes since then, hasnt it. I see no change whatsoever with the new chair. If anything he fumbled over himself to assure the donors as quickly as he could that they were still calling the shots, and that progressivism hadnt been let into the building.