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- politics@lemmy.world
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- politics@lemmy.world
It’s nice to see the senate opposition functioning.
Edit: 18 hours of holding the senate floor, giving voice to the american people. Lots of tears as american suffering is read out loud for the congressional record. Testiment from Americans across the country. This is the voice of the people. Please click the link, share and watch. The media needs to know we care about the opposition more than we care about trump rambling on a plane about fort knox.
Bernie Sanders (AFAIK) has done two 12 hour sessions of this in the past week or so. It feels surreal to watch an American politician at his age show such an impressive feat of stamina and determination to fight for the American people. I’m eternally grateful for that man and his lifelong efforts in working for the interests of the working class.
When the story of this era is written, Bernie will be lauded as one of the greatest heroes in American history.
He’ll be making posts from his deathbed. As bleak as things are right now, I really hope he never thinks he didn’t do enough.
It would have been nice if he didn’t bend the knee to the DNC in 2016
Easily his biggest mistake, a cowardly and fatal one.
Other than that he has been a great rep.
The DNC should have bent the knee to Bernie. The DNC should be abolished for not addressing the populist wave that became MAGA. The tea party movement was about dead and they fed it millions of disenfranchised voters to rebrand into MAGA.
The DNC is locked down by the rich and the decrpid puppets they control.
Notice how they learned nothing from 2016.
In 2020 they didn’t even let progressives into the primary, and in 2024 they didn’t even have a primary.
They are coasting for as long as possible hoping they won’t be replaced before they get to win again in 2028 for “not being Republicans”
It’s on us to replace all of them before that.
agree 100% just no idea how to get rid of them. Pressure them to step down? vacate the organization to be reorganized? Idk what they are thinking from their ivory tower but most of us are ready for them to step down.
Primary them. That’s it.
Exactly. Thats what the Tea Party did. Many established Republicans lost their jobs to far right wingers during the primaries. Many of them went on to lose to their Democratic opponents, often flipping seats, but it sent the message to the party that a serious movement was developing within their party, and eventually they prevailed.
Now Dems need to do the same thing. Ignore the incument status, and only vote for Dem candidates that are willing to show strength, and demand that our government work for the citizens, and not just their wealthy campaign donors. My Dem congressman is extremely weak, and we NEVER hear about him. The next district has 26 year old Max Frost, who is tearing it up and getting on National T1V on a regular basis. He recently got in trouble during a comittee meeting because he insisted on referring to HitlerPig as the Grifter-In-Chief, and refused to stop. They had to cancel the meeting.
We need all our representatives to be like Max, who came to DC to defend America, and attack the Nazis relentlessly. Primaries are the path to do that.
I don’t understand. What would this do. In a primary it’s Democrats against Democrats, or Republicans against Republicans. Sure, the Democratic voters can use a primary to replace one Democrat with another, but it’s still a Democrat. You can’t use a primary to oust a Democrat and replace them with an independent.
What people dont understand, is that the DNC is NEVER going to give the nomination to Bernie, even if he got EVERY vote in the primary, because he is NOT a Democrat.
The presidential nomination is the biggest award a political party can give to a member, and they want to give it to the member that has done the most to support the party, amd earn their allegiance and support in return. Bernie is an independent, and even though he caucases with the Dems, he doesnt raise money for them, he doesnt promote their positions and policies, and over the years, he has been nearly as critical of Democrats as Republicans. They would no more give the nomination to an independent than they would to a Republican, or a Libertarian.
Bottom line: Hes not a Democrat, so the DNC will NEVER give him the nomination. Bernie understands this, its too bad most other people don’t.
Then they shouldn’t have invited Bernie to be in their primary to try to poach his voters
As a non-american, I dont understand what thatyou mean. Could you elaborate shortly? And is your comment controversial because people are saying its not true or because they think your critique is misplaced?
That really comes down to if you are a progressive or a neoliberal.
I think people just don’t like critiquing Bernie
In 2015 Bernie Sanders had the biggest grassroots campaign in US history, with more individual doners than any canidate ever. From the perspective of anyone under 30 he was going to easily sweep Trump before he dropped out.
Bernie was asked by the DNC to drop out of the race and asked his supporters to vote for Hillary Clinton, most of his supporters absolutely hate Hillary Clinton so they didn’t vote for her and then Trump won his first election.
The Neoliberals blame the Progressives, and the Progressives blame the Neoliberals.
But IMO at the end of the day it was the Neoliberal canidate that lost to Donald Trump, so it’s their fault. The Neoliberals knew their policies were unpopular and decided to try to bait and then guilt progressives into voting for them. You can see some are still committed to guilting leftists into supporting right wing Neoliberals.
Thanks for explaining. Sounds like the US had a chance to break out of the two-party dictatorship but gave it away for a short term chance at a single term. This is really sad, but Im also convinced the people in power wouldnt simply let it happen. The system has made them so insanely rich and influential that probably nothing short of a violent revolution could break it.
Go Bernie! Go Go! Go Bernie!! I hope all the dem senators can keep the floor forever. it’s been so inspiring watching brooker and the senators helping him make this historic event. longest filibuster in american history.