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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Too fucking late, maybe if no-path-to-win Warren didn’t stay in the primary race in 2020 we would of had sanders. But the democrats can’t run a primary without ratfucking it in favor of their corporate donors.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 minutes ago

Did Biden not receive more votes than Sanders?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 30 minutes ago (1 children)

People who have built their entire career around attacking working and rigging the economy are not going to reverse their entire lives.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 minutes ago

How many Dems voted against the Child Tax Credit Extension this?

How many Dems voted against protecting Union Pensions in the last 4 years?

Which candidate this year ran on funding for first time home buyers?

Nonsense!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 35 minutes ago

This kinda talk is the right kind, but at the wrong time.

We are well past the "You can vote fascism away" stage

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I hate to say this, but it's too fucking late for any sort of electoral solution, at least on a national level. At this point we need to develop local capacity to secure our progressive enclaves in liberal states and big metropolitan areas. This means rooting out the conservative factions within our police and firing bad actors, as well as training community-based self-defense forces. We also need to build more effective local resilience and mutual aid networks so that the Federal government can't dangle emergency aid over us when pandemics and climate-related disasters recur, as they frequently will. We need politicians who will defend our territory, boundaries and values, and fight to discontinue the tremendous subsidy we pay to MAGA territories. We need more self-sufficient economies that trade primarily with healthy, rights-respecting economies in Canada and Europe. It's a heavy lift and unfortunately I don't see anyone up to the task right now, as even Bernie, Warren, and AOC are stubborn institutionalists who will continue trying to work within the system even as it works against them and their constituents.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 minutes ago

Bro, that state governments at local levels are as left leaning as they’ve ever been, yes they can be pushed more, but this theory of every Democrat being a corrupt neocon is laughable.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago (3 children)

They could have been doing this the whole time lol.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 56 minutes ago (1 children)

Then we never would have heard of them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 29 minutes ago* (last edited 29 minutes ago)

We might have heard how they're radicals, etc., before they disappeared.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

They are still tied to the DNC Party Line, so that's why they haven't. This is also why the DNC cannot and will never be a Worker Party, it's organized like a business that sells policy to wealthy Capitalists.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 minutes ago (1 children)

How many Dems voted against the Child Tax Credit Extension this?

How many Dems voted against protecting Union Pensions in the last 4 years?

Which candidate this year ran on funding for first time home buyers?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 minutes ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 minute ago

The original child tax credit passed when Biden had a majority, it failed this year.

Yes, Biden saved over 1.4m union pensions in 2021, when every Republican was against it.

And Kamala Harris did not get elected, so we’ll never know how the housing plan would’ve worked.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 23 hours ago

Starting 40 years ago. They've been tripping over themselves to throat the Corporate dick for decades.

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