“It speaks to what makes so many of us proud to be Democrats,” he said on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday. “It speaks to a vision that goes back to a New Deal understanding of what working people deserve,” referencing the era of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the label given his domestic policies.
“And I’ll tell you that for too long that kind of politics, you can only find it in history books, and we need to bring it back to the present day.”
You don’t have to join a party. I’ve been an Unaffiliated Independent since I registered to vote 49 years ago. It means I can’t vote in the Primaries, but my candidates were always too left to win anyway, so I would just support whoever won the primary, but they were NEVER my guy.
I have recently considered registering as a Democrat, only so I can vote in the primaries, because we are finally getting candidates - mostly Democratic Socialists - that I actually care about, and I actually WANT to give them my vote.
If you don’t vote in the primaries then of fucking course your candidates are “too left to win”.
There are so many fuckin’ losers out there bitching that who they’d prefer “doesn’t have support” while actively not supporting them. Of course they’re losing, you’re deciding they’ve failed before it even happens and leaving them in the dirt.
I have to join or I’m not allowed to vote in primaries in my state.
I can’t vote in Primaries either, but when I look back on it, there’s the rare occasion that the guy I would have voted for won the primary anyway, but MOST of the time, the person I would have voted for didn’t stand a chance anyway, so my primary vote never really mattered. I can’t think of a single time where I regretted it, because my preferred candidate lost by only one vote, mine.
The only time the person I voted for in the primary won it was Fetterman.