On Tuesday, May 19, the U.S. House passed H.R. 2616, the “Stopping Indoctrination and Protecting Kids Act,” by a vote of 217-198. The bill would hand the Trump administration enormous leverage to strip federal funding from any school that “teaches or advances concepts” related to transgender people, codifying into federal law the anti-trans definitions from Trump’s executive order 14168, “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism.” It would also require public schools to forcibly out transgender students to their parents before using their pronouns or chosen names. The bill is significant on its own terms for the harm it would inflict on transgender youth if it became law. But what made Tuesday’s vote especially notable was the eight Democrats who joined every Republican to pass it—the largest Democratic defection on any standalone anti-trans bill of this Congress.
Democratic party is controlled opposition and many party members are friends or friendly with Republican party members, and attend the same social events.
You can believe that, and it’s also a shit take. So primary them. I’m not disagreeing that some of them are shit, but writing the whole lot off is a bad take and it’s what leads to disinterest in people who would normally vote for SOMETHING.
It would be nice if we had multiple parties, instead of two parties controlled by the same group of people and entities.
Yeah and if wishes were fishes there would be no room in the ocean for water.
Totally. I would absolutely get on board with an actual Progressive party if there was one.
The primary is no guaranteed method of change. The DNC is a private club. A primary vote could literally be 100% for a single candidate and the DNC could pick an entirely different candidate with no legal repercussions.
That would be a good way for them to actually prompt a new political party.
Totally, so who wants to kick off a new progressive party?
I think starting at the local level and changing the party from within is the most feasible approach.
Look at Mamdani, and various other progressives that have made it into their local governments.