The people who want to make the Democratic Party more right wing and pro cruelty are already starting to assert their control and it feels preordained that they will win. Personally I want no part of it.
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I don't know about that. The DNC has been flailing around the idea that "We hAvE tO mOvE tO tHe CeNtEr To AtTrAcT uDeCiDeD mOdErAtEs" since Bill Clinton's days. But Obama didn't do that to the tune of winning 2 terms! We have to get involved with the party and back progressives and not back down.
They are taking advice from Labour Party ghouls, who only won because the Conservatives collapsed, not because their terrible & cruel policies are popular. My heart absolutely sank when I heard Labour advisors were headed over,
The party's upper leadership only has so much control over what the party is and does. Progressive-minded Democrats should start planning 2026 runs now.
It's a shame. Democratic voters like me want fighters with the basic courage to label Republicans, Musk, Trump, Vance, and all these idiots he's putting in his administration creepy weirdos who want to make Americans suffer. It shouldn't be too much to ask.
We all need imagination my friend. We need 435 independent Americans, free from party and corporate control, who will run on Universal Healthcare and taxing the ultra wealthy oligarchs to file paperwork today to run for Congress.
And 33 independent Americans to run for Senate in 2026. And another
34 in 2028. And on the first day of that new session universal healthcare passes the house 435-0 and the Senate a veto proof 67-33.
It is then signed by a President who ran on universal healthcare and taxing the wealthy. That will be 503 new representatives whose name you don’t know yet.
If Democrats want to win they need to have the consent of the governed. That will happen through either persuasion or a willingness to move closer to winning coalitions of belief. Our current coalition is broken. We don’t need cruelty or a hard pivot right ideologically, but we do need change.
you must have missed many prominent Democratic politicians and pundits saying that supporting healthcare for transgender people is why dems lost this election lol
If the dems had been able to hit messaging hard like this during the campaign instead of saving it for the post-election internal power struggle, maybe we would have won.
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And 33 independent Americans to run for Senate in 2026. And another
It is then signed by a President who ran on universal healthcare and taxing the wealthy. That will be 503 new representatives whose name you don’t know yet.
A certain amount of dooming is very understandable when we may in fact be doomed—by Republicans.
Blaming this shit on Democrats is fucked up.