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  • What do you expect the leaders of the DNC to do?

    If they don’t rig the primary so a neoliberal will win, then they risk a progressive running, flipping a bunch of red states like Obama in 08, and then they get to set the DNC leadership and party direction.

    Which means the current neoliberals with a stranglehold on the party would lose their positions.

    They won’t get as lucky again as 08 when Obama just ignored them.

    DNC leadership care more about themselves then voters or the country.

    The only other explanation is because they current just go with whoever can bundle the most money to determine leadership…

    Corporations and billionaires are donating to the Dem party along with the Republican party thru the absolute stupidest fundraisers they can find to make voters hate the DNC…

    And I just don’t think they’re that smart.

    But the only way the people who pick the next round of DNC leaders isn’t the current round of DNC leaders, is when a Dem wins the general.

    Which is why even when we do get an ineffectual moderate in, nothing fucking changes because to thank the DNC for getting them to the general, they maintain leadership.

    Literally the only way shit gets better is a progressive president




  • You forget why trump is even a thing in national politics…

    In 2015 when the primaries happened Hillary’s campaign controlled the DNC and pushed for trump because he was the worst possible opponent and they thought it would scare people into voting for Hillary despite her being wildly unpopular.

    They’re 1 out of 3, but the DNC leadership loves trump because he lets them run even less popular moderates and take bribes from even worse industries/billionaires while still having a 33% chance of winning.

    To them, it’s a smart bet.

    Which is why we shouldn’t let them anywhere near the DNC.

    They could have easily beat trump, but the want the awful “compromises” they say they have to do to win elections. It’s why they keep saying it despite it never helping





  • How does that make any sense compared to moderates going to the Republican party?

    Like, the current Dems are “progressives” who want what every other 1st world country got decades ago, and “moderates” who want what Republicans wanted decades ago…

    Why are the “moderates” trying to moderate the Dem party instead of the one that’s so far from center they’re openly fascist?

    If they had stayed where they were in the 80s, then the furthest right we’d have been in 2024 was Kamala

    Do you understand how ridiculous it is to say everyone to the left of them should go R?

    Absolutely best case scenario we end up with two modern Dem parties and that fixes nothing.

    But if the moderates go to the Republican party?

    They’d get what they want, they can be pro-fracking. They can be for genocide, they can be for politicians using insider knowledge to make millions off the stock market, they can be for the end of political donations regulations.

    And have total party unity on all those topics, while moderating the Republicans so they run McCains instead of trumps.

    But that’s hard.

    And moderates have never been fighters.

    The only way they’ll go moderate Republicans, is if Dems kick them the fuck out of running the party.

    They did it in 08, they’ll do it again if we get a progressive to the general. It’s not a problem either because we’ll gain waaaaay more votes than we lose.


  • Nah, if they didn’t have nukes and US backing (which is likely how they have nukes)…

    Then they wouldn’t act like they’re untouchable and wouldn’t commit so many genocides against neighboring countries…

    Like, what you’re doing is saying the schoolyard bully has to be a bully because no one likes them. Ignoring the fact that the reason no one likes them is they keep beating up smaller kids.

    They can stop being a bully anytime and the situation would improve. Getting mad at the bullied kids because they don’t like the bully makes no logical sense.

    Like, you expect people to just ignore when a different country attacks yours and kills your children?

    That’s just water under the bridge and they should get over it?

    It’s their fault for responding to violence with violence instead of meekly allowing themselves to be exterminated?

    Do you even read what you type?

    Or do you legitimately just not understand what’s happening?





  • Oh ok…

    You’re right, historically it has been best to bow to far right extremists making terroristic threats so the only members of the government are ones that agree with them.

    /s

    Did you know we’ve literally tried that before?

    It’s what ended reconstruction and was the original mission of the KKK.

    https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/ku-klux-klan-in-the-reconstruction-era/

    People did what you’re supporting back then, it worked out fucking horribly. Seriously, people taking your current advice back then is one of the forks in the road that led to the current fucking shit show. But first it led to Jim Crow laws and massive civil rights setbacks. Because people cowed to just not threats but actual murders.

    I swear, the vast majority of the reasons we can’t fix the same problems, is people refuse to remember how many times something has happened, what failed last time, and why we shouldn’t keep fucking doing it over and over.

    And I’m not coming down on you personally, it’s just no one knows this shit anymore.

    Fighting isn’t easy, we don’t just get to sit on the couch and make social media comments and call it a day.

    You want to actually do something to help the government resist?

    www.usajobs.gov

    You might not want trump to be your boss, but again:

    Fighting isn’t easy

    If only trump sycophants work in the US government, he’ll break a lot more shit


  • Scuttlebutt is already record breaking retirements across most federal agencies for January, and there’s going to be lots more that try it but dip out after a few months. And I’m not talking people discussing the possibility, I mean the process has already started.

    Which is a really bad thing…

    A lot of the goverment is perpetually understaffed, and all these ultra conservative department heads are just going to do hiring freezes, keeping it even smaller.

    Republicans don’t have to cut government staffing when everyone always runs away rather than stay and do what they can.

    Republicans sure as shit don’t resign when a Dem shows up. They stick around and obstruct what they disagree with and try to maintain any ground they can.



  • Years ago they tried to pass a minimum amount of time you had to hold a stock before selling…

    It was a fraction of a second and neoliberals and Republicans immediately united to tell everyone how antithetical to America that was.

    For some reason, that wasn’t enough to show people that both groups have the same priorities and we can’t fight an oligarchy with fucking oligarchs.

    We’ll never win if only a handful of politicians are actually on our side.

    But it’s almost impossible to compete against dark money in a primary, and the people running the DNC know that. So they’ll never agree to get dark money out of primaries. It’s the only reason they’re still holding back progressives.


  • Why that would be huge:

    It would incentize the rich to hold stocks long term, this would lead to corporations thinking more than what profits are in 3 months.

    Which translates to greater stability for other investors and job security for the people who work there.

    But it’s never going to happen as long as Smaug Pelosi and people like her who’s main priority is personal wealth is running the Dem party. Because we all know Republicans will never support it.

    But if we don’t purge the Dem party of neo liberals, and fast, we’re all fucked. We can’t keep walking down the path of “the rich always get richer” like nothing is wrong.

    Wealth is finite. And without taxes and regulations the people who already have a lot will always accumulate more faster than they can spend it.

    With them hoarding all that wealth, no one else has any.