New: Last month, a group of moderate Democratic consultants, campaign staffers, elected officials & party leaders gathered in Loudoun County, Virginia, for a retreat where they plotted their party’s comeback.
We got their takeaways. https://t.co/bEwlg4jbtM
We got their takeaways. https://t.co/bEwlg4jbtM
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Please can you advise how you qualify centre, left and right here?
All these policies are far to the right of the 1960s Tories.
Inequality was much lower, and the economy (GDP) grew at a faster rate.
That all changed from 1976 onwards as the IMF imposed right wing policies on us.
Starmer is very right wing.
(Loudon County is where the book banning movement started, for example.)
https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000195-5511-d4a2-afbf-dd7121940000
The populace never wanted GOP-lite as a democratic party, but boy howdy dems certainly have no desire to save this country
I'd love names so I know to never donate or support any AH who participated in this & will denounce
No wonder it's complete & utter slag🤣
If dems take this seriously, rather than focus on what we need to save this country, I'm changing my party affiliation & dems will never get another cent or vote from me
Are those oligarchs? They seem to have the same agenda.
Sounds like they need a prescreening➡️ can’t answer how we got here, can’t be part of plan on how to get out.
And it has nothing to do w/ pronouns. Morons.
They want Dems who will fight tooth and nail. They want Dems who will be an impenetrable wall of opposition.
They don't want their Dems to be fucking George W Bush
They weren't on the ballot in my state.
We tried that shit in 2010, 2012, 2014, and 2016.
I'm down to try again, but the system isn't any less rigged.
Details plz, bc in my state they won't even recognize a third party unless they got a certain percentage of the presidential vote.
Their goal isn't to make a comeback, it's to make controlled opposition.
hunt them for sport.
- Wikileaks Podesta DNC emails.
The ONLY incumbent Dem I am willing to support in 2026 is JB Pritzger. The rest should be primaried.
Fringe minority of the donors they desperately crave? You bet!
(or “be more like Democrats,” depending on how disillusioned you are about the party.)
The only demographic(s) Dems have ever had any interest in opposing is anyone/everyone left of fascist
Second, your username is an utter disgrace to the philosopher whose name you're dragging in the mud
And a single pocket line walk, huh?
You libs are so easily satiated.
Corporatists are just fascists with crocodile tears, part a billion.
Our country was founded upon the American Revolution, not moderation.
Recommending Democrats stop making the super wealthy feel bad does not bring blue collar works back.
"...Axel Springer SE names "solidarity with the libertarian values of the United States of America" as one of its core principles on its website."
"a history of compromising journalistic ethics to support right-wing causes"
Thanks for doing something, too.
extremely, extremely, extremely generous
Fire the lot of them into the sun, and don't look back.
We have watched as leadership has demonstrated this by attempting to silence progressive voices (whilst accumulating donor funds from Palantir, SpaceX).
They are not going to step in as revolutionary opposition. They want order.
https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-research/policycast/oligarchy-open-what-happens-now-us-forced-confront-its-plutocracy
Their further failure to understand the distrust they've engendered could be fatal.
if you want a republican president then vote republican.
you know whst the democrats haven’t actually tried?
being centre left.
This is a horseshit thread, a "bait" story that seems to be "reported" only by the thread's starter...
Don't be fucking duped
Maga attacks trans, Dems defend then get crucified for being all about trans.
I think Dems can pass policies that protects everyone, by talking about how it protects mom, pop & US values.
All I'm seeing is "trans people are to blame" AFTER the fact
We did what you wanted and we lost and now they want us to be even more milqtoaste.
No.
just say ‘i hate trannies’ and go away.
When's the last time a Dem won SC in the General?
Fuck em.
Did you see this nonsense?
Dems should:
1. Stop listening to 'professional' consultants
2. Grow a spine
3. GOP goes low, cut their throats.
4. Advocate your district's vulnerable
5. Find growth opportunities for businesses in your district
Gun shows my ass.
Just act like functional, rational humans.
If the Dems are trying to be 'pick mes' - I'm starting another party.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism
It's also blue.
Blue doesn't mean anything.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-02/anthony-albanese-small-targets-peter-dutton-hesitancy/104994080
. I was watching Bernie Sanders and decided he'd make a good president. They all laughed at me and said he was dangerously socialist.... hmmmm. Ya reckon that now?
They can shut the fuck up
But I would not mind if we could stop with the incessant avalanche of consistently desperate fundraising emails, which apparently it is my fault they keep sending me.
I will lose. I will be ignored. I wont care.
Damn my "elite circle" that doesn't want kids to be murdered in schools.
These are the same folks who are attending and yelling at their reps in congress. Meet them where THEY are.
Gun shows/shops are a core right-wing organizing spot, it's virtually impossible
Now, i actually do think there's a point to be made with churches...but not the ones where the MAGA crowd goes. Korean churches are HUGE in places like Atlanta for ex.
Read more of the nonsense tbese consultants peddle:
https://www.thirdway.org/memo/why-democrats-must-reject-the-pledges
Read your Popper, kid, assuming you can.
The snark here is with the verbiage and the framing taken straight from Fox News. "own the failures of Democratic governance in large cities" is an insane thing to say.
Dems have to stop accepting false premises.
Blue cities are great. Republicans have run the bible belt into the ground and often rely on blue state assistance via federal government programs. Texas can't keep a functioning power grid.
All the “but Dems will lose” is kinda moot if they’re the same anti-LGBT, pro-biz, fascists.
I get what youre saying, and I know the reality of what would happen if a third party emerges from the left. But if Dems go through with this plan, then they are not representing real progressives anyway.
Padering to the opponents will continue until the base likes it.
The only thing you can reliably call upon Democrats to do in every single instance?
Also, this should be the end of the Democratic party. We live in a representative democracy so it's time to work on getting other parties elected.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_House_Rule
And the first will always side with the third to stop the second.
I say this because im the absolute target demographic they are trying to reach. My takeway is to fire everyone who came up with this.
It's just asinine.
If you’re posting about politics on bluesky, you are not an average voter.
We need to reach the average voter and the average voter is way more conservative than you would believe.
https://www.redneckrevolt.org/
https://bsky.app/profile/jackscellphone.bsky.social/post/3lj44xczspk2i
I feel like I’m losing my mind.
Everything else is just "We, The Lanyard Class, gotta protect our phony-baloney jobs!"
The GOP has gotten in to the position it's in partially because the Dems have just flat-out surrendered these spaces to the authoritarians!
Consider Tim Walz
Study Tim Walz
Speak like Tim Walz
Run a younger version of Tim Walz
Become Tim Walz
I don't even agree with the guy on a variety of topics but he was cooking in a lot of spaces until they yanked the leash
Which would explain why they love courting Republicans since they don't care how awful their leaders are
But we can hope that they're just shy or something. Even after 40 years in the role...
They've also promised that they aren't spending that money on Teslas and donations to GOP candidates, they swear.
One of the youngest people in office for the Democrats is the current chair of the blue dogs. Because there’s only 10 dogs left.
Never ever listen to any of these people again.
Thank you.
Well according to these guys, who apparently lack a functioning brain cell, it’s to MOVE RIGHT!??! Every election that’s their answer and every time it does not work.
The DNCC, otoh, might not like that.
Let's just do the same thing!"
What a joke...
Wow. Lot of fascist apologists up in there.
and the purity test is just "do you hate minorities?" or "are you a sex pest?"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Way
What a mystery.
That really explains a lot. We are truly and colossally fucked with these people in charge of anything.