lol at least two of the five are “throw trans people under the bus” but left as subtext.
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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. t.co/bEwlg4jbtM
We got their takeaways. t.co/bEwlg4jbtM
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I will either not vote or vote third party.
I have long voted Dem as the "lesser of two evils" -- trying desperately to avoid the extreme harm R's cause to me and my queer and trans community. But like ... when does it become too much garbage to ignore?
But the other 4 are suck red dick so...
Isn't Third Way basically a grift shop?
https://thomaswebb.net/2024/11/16/the-normal-people-understanders/
This opens us up to starting an actually left wing party instead of wasting time with Dems.
No matter how you look at it, we’re all being dragged into the 1950s or worse, Gilliad.
I hope I get the wall, I don’t have it in me to do the fields.
the kind that don't have any small-dollar donors, i guess
These fuckheads are taking the wrong messaging and conclusions from their failures. We need you to throw a fucking punch not cower the fuck away.
They lost the last election riding right wing policy positions against a party with right wing credibility.
So their answer is to alienate their left wing even further by leaning into fascism?
Anyone who could look at fascism and think "I want some of that" might not be the best choice to save the world from it.
Stupid fucking worthless ghouls.
It's time for a New Party that listens to women, minorities, and Ordinary Americans. And not just Ultra Rich White Men.
We need a new party.
THEY'RE WUSSES
For that kinda pay I’d work really hard and attempt to be right.
There is no “Democrat HQ” that’s employing people to work on the long term. There’s no “them” there.
It’s just a diffuse cloud of individual politicians’ staff and a handful of think tanks.
Technically, the Republicans are the same.
1/
D’s don’t have a Murdock.
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The party is phenomenal at raising small donor funds, but it all goes to campaign budgets & leaves no lasting imprint.
Meanwhile the lasting money, such as it is, goes to the think tanks that chronically ignore small donors & push for big donor interests
3/
That same lack of structure and meaningful long term vision makes them vulnerable to usurpation from within.
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Unless they mean a different thing when they say "working class"
* becomes fascist *
As far as I’m concerned, we’re a “package deal.” You dis my trans siblings and I’m done with you!
this country is a fucking lost cause
D:<
and how on earth do big money donors represent the people?
Dems are such a fucking joke they can’t even feign opposition anymore.
I asked this exact question.
The “silent center” is practically an article of faith for some of these think tank types and I cannot get them to explain why, even in pillow talk.
It’s hard to discuss the party as an entity because by design it’s not one. We have no central long term structure. Just a nebulous cloud of electeds & big—but not huge like Murdock—donor pet think tanks hovering above real grassroots orgs.
You need to keep in mind tens of millions of Americans own guns, and they vote.
Magazin limits, cosmetic bans, etc are the most alienating restrictions, even among the left.
For shame.
The dems obviously ate shit last election because they did not go far enough to the right and it definitely was not because they were pandering to a moderate republican demographic that literally does not exist while failing to address the real lived experiences of voters.
#6 "Need more Cheneys."
The U.S.A. has one party: oligarchs.
"The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round and round, the wheels on the bus go round and round, all over you."
It's like some Republicans were left out of the Trump circle and are trying to reshape the democrats into what the Republicans were. Just with dashes of hate and extremism
It really is that simple. American politics is bought and paid for and has been since before either of us were born. It’s a big club, we’re not in it, and we will NEVER be in it.
The left is their true threat.
Right now, I'm getting stuff ready and trying to learn everything I can. Any info on greatly appreciated!
Was the meeting titled:
How to effectively stand for nothing and bore people into not voting AGAIN???
The "a bunch of small dollar donors pleading for free healthcare don't know what they want, go after the millionaire class for their money, they know best" is baffling
This entire fucking list is an attempt to scam conservative voters WHO CANNOT BE FLIPPED. Every time Dems throw trans people under the bus,
Might as well have them wear MAGA hats at their townhalls. "Trump was right" on a banner.
The Democratic party has been slightly left of center for decades.
It's donors and bigots in the consulting class holding us back.
This is a so-called “leak”. It’s validity should be questioned.
The last thing Dems want is to be the party that guarantees the Republicans win every foreseeable election.