• Kindness is Punk@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    Democrats in safe seats capitulate and deserve all the criticism they get but not all Democrats want the stairs quo. Minnesota just passed a wealth tax that they have been using to find better public education and free school lunches. New York Mayor Mamdani has been doing amazing things and New Jersey just elected a progressive.

    Positive change is possible we just need more progressives.

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      4 months ago

      People like you focus on the 1-2 progressive people who get elected on suckering people like you who put them on a pedestal while you ignore the other several 100 democrats who are fine with genocide and act like this is progress.

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      4 months ago

      Sorry, in a conversation about mass incineration of civilians as part of a mass genocide, you’re talking about school lunches? Could you, for one single second, just pretend you think Palestinians are human.

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      Democrats in safe seats capitulate and deserve all the criticism they get but not all Democrats want the stairs quo.

      Which is why I referred specifically to a wing of the democratic party and not the whole thing.

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        4 months ago

        the problem is that they’re not in control of the democratic party; the capitulators are.

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            4 months ago

            which means that they will not give progressives control of the party.

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                4 months ago

                so why advocate voting for progressive democrats when moderate democrats will not allow any progressive members to control the democrat party?

                you’re just going to end up w a bernie, aoc, omar, etc. situation where they’re not given enough control to change anything the democratic party’s priorities; but trotted out like show ponys to convince progressives to vote for the democrats anyways.

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                  4 months ago

                  so why advocate voting for progressive democrats when moderate democrats will not allow any progressive members to control the democrat party?

                  Because the centrist wing has lost all credibility and we’re seeing their power to block progressives waning.

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                    4 months ago

                    we’re seeing their power to block progressives waning

                    do you have any evidence for this?