• LupusBlackfur@lemmy.world
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    “To get out of the political wilderness, and win over not just Democrats but also Independent and moderate voters, policymakers need to loudly state their case for helping middle- and working-class Americans,” Demand Progress corporate power program director Emily Peterson-Cassin said in a statement Thursday. “What these voters want is clear: a populist agenda that takes on corporate power and corruption,” Peterson-Cassin added. “The stakes are too high for Democrats to fixate on a message that only appeals to a minority of independent and Democratic voters.”

    Well, duh…

    Maybe some Dems somewhere will pull their head from their ass, read this, and seriously do some thinking on it.

    Though, my hopes for current “establishment” Dems are low to the point of nearly non-existent… 🤦‍♀️ 🤡 🖕

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      Maybe some Dems somewhere will pull their head from their ass, read this, and seriously do some thinking on it.

      You mean politicians like Bernie and AOC?

      Or DNC leaders like the chair?

      Because all three of them have spent the last couple months doing so in red/purple districts in preparation of flipping the house in the midterms…

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        Good for those folks…

        Gonna take more than just them to accomplish the goal.

        Would that it could be more ubiquitous but I just don’t see that happening. 🤷‍♂️

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          but I just don’t see that happening

          I mean, politics moves at the pace of elections…

          It’s not gonna be fast, but it’s happening. The chair wasn’t an abnormally, the voting members of the DNC have been trending progressive for decades.

          The only way neoliberals gets control of the party again is if a neoliberal becomes president, and that won’t happen with a fair Dem primary.

          I’ve spent literal decades criticizing the DNC, I didn’t do a 180 for no reason.

          If you doubt Ken Martin. Look into how he ran Minnesota and the politicians who flourished under him. He’s earned the benefit of the doubt from me.

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              All I can ask is you vote in the Dem primaries.

              It’s a primary, vot for something, you’ll never have to hold your nose in a primary.

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                If it comforts you any, I vote in any/all elections be they primary, local, federal, or otherwise.

                I never have to “hold my nose”, but my results have been… somewhat less than inspiring. 🤷‍♂️