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    AOC runs several investigations that lead to results.

    Connelly… Is old and has seniority.

    Great fucking job Democrats. Getting my seat warmer ready for 2022 2026 already!

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    A 74-year-old who is dying of cancer was chosen over a 35-year-old rising star at the insistence of an 84-year-old woman (who is currently undergoing hip replacement surgery) just months after an 81-year-old Presidential candidate was forced to drop out of the race because he showed sever symptoms of cognitive decline during a debate. If this were a satire about a gerontocracy, I would think it was too over the top.

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    “Everyone sort of made the case that they would be the best to help change the message across the country. … He’s a very good communicator,” said Beyer.

    Oh yeah that’s exactly what’s going to fix the problem Democrats have. Electing another old ass Clinton era Democrat to a position of power. It’s not like everybody’s pissed at them for losing the Presidency, the House, and the Senate all in one go.

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      It’s not like everybody’s pissed at them for losing the Presidency, the House, and the Senate all in one go.

      With their amazing communication skills.

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      See it from their perspective. They are doing their hardest to be as useless as possible and people still vote them.

      At this point, how pissed everyone is matters jack shit because they know their public loves outrage for the sake of outrage, and the very same public that votes them, is totally neutered and incapable of choosing or voting for anything else

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          Replacement takes years, during which it’s spoiling every race and letting us slip into fascism.

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            Democrats have been spoiling every race and letting us slip into fascism, so we might as well try something different, right?

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              Doing the same thing they are doesn’t seem like it’s doing anything different…

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            We’re already in the age of an authoritarian oligarchy.

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                Republicans have the majority in all 3 houses and it’s 4 years until the next presidential election. When should they be trying to reform things?

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          Be fair. They’re not spineless. They just choose to show that spine when opposing anyone to the left of Netanyahu.

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        They can worry about the spoiler effect… Or they can worry about the massive amount of people who don’t vote because they feel it’s pointless or barely muster enough care to do it.

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          The fact that these experienced politicians whose judgment you appear to trust, have both decided to work within the existing system should probably sway your opinion of what the optimal strategy is at least a bit more.

          There are usually two parties because the game-theoretic dynamic of this electoral system has a significant channelizing effect on the likeliest outcomes. Once you’ve accepted that reality, the (admittedly unsatisfying) optimal strategy becomes apparent.

          I say this all with zero rancor - I do not like these arguments either, but the logic of it is difficult to see past. I would prefer the system be overthrown entirely but, and this is key, you go into the revolution with the populace that exists - and they’re going to have their own ideas for what comes next. I’m not so sure I’d like what they bring to the table.

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            The fact that these experienced politicians whose judgment you appear to trust, have both decided to work within the existing system should probably sway your opinion of what the optimal strategy is at least a bit more.

            I like them but would I don’t think I would consider them that successful in respective of their peers. This system is literally against them being successful.

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              That’s so.

              A career in politics hasn’t attracted much high quality talent in general, I think they’d be more successful if there was more of a sense of politics being a good option for good people. It mainly attracts scum these days.

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            “You don’t vote” is what Democrats say to anyone they don’t want to listen to, regardless of whether they actually vote.

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              Democrats need to listen to people who vote.

              But the person I replied to said they also need to worry about nonvoters. They don’t. Nonvoters don’t matter.

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                If they follow that logic they’ll never win, because the number of people who will unconditionally vote Dem is demonstrably not enough to win an election.

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                  They don’t care about winning if it means lowering themselves to the level of trying to court voters.

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                  Democrats won over 200 federal elections last month. Believe it or not, Harris was not the only Democrat on the ballot.

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                When it’s time to decide on policy, they don’t. When assigning blame, they’re the only thing that matters.

                But they are always conveniently whoever the party doesn’t want to listen to.

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                  The vast majority of nonvoters are politically disengaged, and there’s no evidence that their opinions differ significantly from those of voters.

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        The spoiler effect will work in the short term, but if a progressive party can oust the DNC in even a few states Congress should look a lot different to how it is now. A bit of pain is worth it to escape the slow death promised by the DNC.

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          We’re not really in a position to sacrifice the short term to fascists right now

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              My point is we shouldn’t also be sacrificing the short term, because the wealthy elite in the dnc don’t care, they win either way. We don’t. Ousting them is less destructive than ignoring the biggest flaw of first past the post election systems

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                My point is we shouldn’t also be sacrificing the short term, because the wealthy elite in the dnc don’t care, they win either way.

                That’s preferable, but it’s nearly certain that a strong left wing party would result in more Republican victories due to the spoiler effect. As far as I understand you can only have one or the other (or neither) here.

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        That’s a false worry.

        As a Canadian with multiple political parties in our house of parliament, numbers don’t change.

        If one left party gets 100 seats, the second left party gets 20, and the right leaning party gets 115 (for example) The right leaning party, yes technically, gets to say they’re in charge. But they can’t really do anything without cooperation from the left.

        115 < 120 regardless of the number of parties.

        Parties matter less than right vs left matters.

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          Yes, but if one left party gets 100 votes, the second left party gets 20 votes, and the right leaning party gets 115 (for example) The right leaning party gets the seat.

          I’m sure you’ve seen examples of Liberal and NDP votes combined outnumbering the Conservative votes on a riding but the Conservative still won.

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            Yes. That’s my point. It’s called a minority government and it means no one side can do anything without collaboration from the other side no matter who’s nominally “in charge”.

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              I’m not talking about total seats, I’m talking about in one specific riding. Whatever district you are in, if the Conservative MP in your area gets 40% of the vote, and the liberal and NDP MPs each get 30% of the vote, the Conservative wins the seat and the other parties get nothing in that district, despite 60% of voters voting for left leaning parties.

              I think it’s awesome that Canada is able to support more than 2 parties, but that doesn’t mean the spoiler effect doesn’t exist.

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                  Your initial comment was how the spoiler effect doesn’t exist. When it comes to individual seats it still does.

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        Make the DNC the spoiler… I think Bernie and the squad could pull enough Dems away, plus get enough new people, to actually have a bigger party than the DNC

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    HEADLINE: AFTER SEVERAL BEATINGS, DEMOCRATS LEARN NO LESSONS

    More the stupid us for thinking things would be any different this time.

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    What they’re saying: Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.), a Connolly ally, acknowledged Connolly’s greater seniority likely played a role in his win but argued “it wasn’t just that.”

    It wasn’t just that. He also has a penis

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    Gerry Connolly more like Gerry Atric.

    If AOC sticks with the Democratic party instead of going independent she proves the DNC was right to deny her power. Why bother caving to AOC’S demands if she will keep sheepdogging people to the party and get nothing in return?

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    That does it for me. I’m changing my voter registration to independent. This party no longer represents me.

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    At this point, the most determined and successful opponent of progressivism in the US is the Democrat party.

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    Unfortunate, but it’ll give her more time to work with Bernie and labor leaders to organize a general strike

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    After 2016, ive wondered for a while if it would have made more sense to run progressives in republican primaries instead of dem ones. We would probably have been better off if progressives took advantage of republican party weaknesses