I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. The Democratic party is broken beyond fixing. They’re corpo sellouts and will sabotage progressive agendas at every turn while pretending to support the working class. That is quite literally how Trump won both times. And the only reason he didn’t win in 2020 was because his Covid fumbles were still fresh in the voters’ memories; not because Biden was a good candidate.
Progressive leaders like AOC and Bernie need to cut all ties with the DNC and start their own party.
It’s a sunk cost. The DNC needed to deliver a 2024 win to prove they were worth all the compromise we’ve tolerated year after year. Abortion isn’t even a national issue any more and they still couldn’t pull one out. It’s a sink cost.
I’m inclined to agree at this point. I held out hope that progressive would be able to make them slowly change but after this debacle, I’m all for a separate party that will caucus them, even if it results in a short term set backs in primaries.
This is all true, but unless ranked choice and paper ballots are used in a lot of states, which will never happen, then all this will become is a money making party to run failed elections.
USA federal politics is broken. Full stop. It cannot be resurrected. Democracy exists in some states but not others, and the Democratic Party rules in the states which are not lost causes.
One cannot run a federal government with many of the red states having their own cabals of mini authoritarian arseholes. Those red states and many of the purple states are lost causes
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. The Democratic party is broken beyond fixing. They’re corpo sellouts and will sabotage progressive agendas at every turn while pretending to support the working class. That is quite literally how Trump won both times. And the only reason he didn’t win in 2020 was because his Covid fumbles were still fresh in the voters’ memories; not because Biden was a good candidate.
Progressive leaders like AOC and Bernie need to cut all ties with the DNC and start their own party.
It’s a sunk cost. The DNC needed to deliver a 2024 win to prove they were worth all the compromise we’ve tolerated year after year. Abortion isn’t even a national issue any more and they still couldn’t pull one out. It’s a sink cost.
I’m inclined to agree at this point. I held out hope that progressive would be able to make them slowly change but after this debacle, I’m all for a separate party that will caucus them, even if it results in a short term set backs in primaries.
This is all true, but unless ranked choice and paper ballots are used in a lot of states, which will never happen, then all this will become is a money making party to run failed elections.
USA federal politics is broken. Full stop. It cannot be resurrected. Democracy exists in some states but not others, and the Democratic Party rules in the states which are not lost causes.
One cannot run a federal government with many of the red states having their own cabals of mini authoritarian arseholes. Those red states and many of the purple states are lost causes