Chakrabarti, a 39-year-old former tech worker and multi-millionaire, is best known as the former chief of staff to New York City Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who drew national attention after defeating 10-term incumbent Joe Crowley in 2018.

Among other priorities, Chakrabarti supports guaranteeing health care for all, making public colleges and trade schools tuition-free, taxing billionaires, banning the revolving door between Congress and the lobbying industry, prohibiting Congress members from trading stocks, and turning PG&E into a public utility to lower people’s utility bills.

Easy, just lie to companies and say it will drastically reduce labor costs, allowing them to put more in their own pockets. It has worked this far.

Dem Leaders Continue To Fail Base by Whitewashing-

FTFY

I have always seen it as a “Perfection is the enemy of progress.” phrase.

I.E. Yes, that blue candidate is funded by target, but the red candidate will do so much worse things to the people.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/19/israeli-official-soliciting-minor-las-vegas

Wait, trump lied!?!

Their voter base is not the most educated, so they are VERY susceptible to misinformation. Also, they have raised their base to be extremely reactionary.

It is not really the politicians these would be aimed at, even though some have very fragile egos and may act solely because it hurts their feefees.

I think this is similar to the gerrymandering issue where, since only the Republicans have abused it for years they have had 0 reason to vote for any legislation put up against it.

Now that the D’s are doing it, they might consider the risk is higher than the reward with Gerrymandering and say nobody is allowed to do it.

Just gotta start pumpin out gen images of Rs for them to reconsider their stance.

To be clear, I am very against AI gen images. But, like you were saying, I don’t see any reason for them to take any action against it until it affects them.

OG poll source is paywalled, but figured it was better to have this here for people who haven’t seen it than not.

https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2025/05/30/poll-israelis-expel-palestinians-gaza-genocide/

They are trying, just give them a bit more time and money and money and money and money.

https://www.pm.gov.au/media/australia-recognise-palestinian-state

Take into consideration that dumpy has his eyes on NYC.

I would expect some election shenanigans to happen for this mayoral election and a guaranteed accusation of election fraud if Zohran wins.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-suggests-taking-new-york-city-washington/story?id=123581492

If his “term” doesn’t end early, I don’t think it will at all.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_journalists_in_the_Gaza_war

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_journalists_in_the_Gaza_war

Everything is coming up out of the drain.

Help.

If only there were signs 😞

Not working with the system, legitimizing and relying on it.

If you truly believe that you cannot work alongside the people who are working inside the system to change America, I think we are done here.

I hope you are successful in creating the change you are talking about.

My friend, you seem to be misunderstanding what I have been saying.

You keep on talking in absolutes. I am talking about chances. If it is 0.00001% safer/easier to perform collective action under a blue party, it is still easier/safer.

The primary message I am trying to get across is to use the system that is currently implemented in this country to create an opportunity for change.

Discouraging people from voting or encouraging people to vote for a party that has no chance is doing damage to both of our agendas.

Correct me if I am wrong, but your position is to perform a full correction of the system. I wish you the best of luck with that and if you succeed, I will celebrate.

We can work both inside and outside the system to create change.

On the topic of Imperialism, yes, I do believe America is an Imperial country and I think it is bad.

real change has come from directly organizing against the system,

As we are seeing right now, Red parties are more willing to recklessly act against protestors, who are exercising their first amendment rights, with impunity. I am not saying that blue parties will be the ones making the direct change, but blue parties make collective action more viable to perform.

the DNC is a bourgeois party that exists due to bourgeois consent and feeds off of bourgeois donations.

Correct, which is why having publicly funded, grassroots candidates can create change in the party.

Is this an appeal to your own authority, ie you presume you have more organizing experience and wish to wield that as a cudgel, or are you genuinely wondering what I am suggesting you yourself do?

Nope, just hate it when people say the only path forward is a full on revolution, then take zero real action to make the world a better place.