• BigMacHole@thelemmy.club
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    As a HIGHLY PAID Democratic Strategist the LAST thing I would Advise them to Do is ACCEPT the ONLY People in their Party CAPABLE of Winning an Election! We MUST fight Republicans! Trump! People who want to HELP Americans!

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    Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-NY) — Co-leading the initiative

    Rep. Adam Gray (D-CA) — Co-leading the initiative

    Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ)

    Rep. Susie Lee (D-NV)

    Rep. Don Davis (D-NC)

    Rep. Vicente Gonzalez Jr. (D-TX)

    Rep. Laura Gillen (D-NY)

    Rep. Janelle Bynum (D-OR)

    Rep. Kristin McDonald Rivet (D-MI)

    Rep. Maggie Goodlander (D-NH)

    Jessica Killin (candidate)

    Marlene Galán Woods (candidate)

    Bobby Pulido (candidate)

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    Do politicians not realize that this is the will of the people? If people wanted centrist leaders, they’d vote for centrist leaders. Obviously centrist leaders aren’t doing the job so they want somebody who will. And who will fucking do something.

    So when they say they’re going to war with people who are more liberal leaning than them, they’re literally going to war with their constituents.

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    The war they fight won’t be at the ballot box. It will be well before the voters are ever given a choice. They will use their monopoly on the election process to ensure that the status quo establishment dems are the only ones that are allowed to run. They will work with the donor’s to ensure that even if a primary occurs there are no funds available for the challengers. Finally if these upstarts are actually able to get to a general election, they will talk about the need for bipartisanship and push the virtues of cutting spending while fomenting distrust in society.

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      This is why it all needs to burn, hopefully we can build something new from the ashes. Neither party can survive this.

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      They’ll try all these things, but who knows if they’ll be successful. They’re less powerful than they used to be.

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    Insert damn-mamdani-got-hands.meme.jpg

    I’ll be very interested to see them wage this “war” because they’ve been steadily losing ground against progressives for quite a while now. The fact that they had to freeze out Bernie instead of successfully smearing him was a death knell for the corporate power bloc.

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    Facing perhaps the most dangerous presidential administration in history and already planning on infighting… what the hell…

    There’s long been pressure that people that are a bit more left need to be strategically minded and work with what is there rather than get pissy because the candidates aren’t perfect. Well that cuts both ways, these are the candidates the people want and you need to work with them for the common good.

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      There’s long been pressure that people that are a bit more left need to be strategically minded and work with what is there rather than get pissy because the candidates aren’t perfect.

      All the progressives wanted was for us to not actively support genocide and that was dishonestly framed as “not perfect”. Thats where the real battle line is. You’ll notice that every candidate who comes up for the dems will be a zionism supporter, and there will be no candidate who supports universal human rights. Which is wildly out of step with what the voters think.

      I dont know why ‘not mass murdering’ is some sort of crazy high bar we just cant be allowed to get to, and anyone who talks about it is kicked out of Dem events.

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      for the common good.

      I don’t think these people understand that phrase. They do what they’re paid the most to do.

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    Guys the article clearly says Jeffries will have to work harder so i stopped reading knowing full well he’s incapable of hard work.

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      Yeah by hard work they don’t mean legislate, whip votes for legislation, or anything that has to do with their actual job of representing constituents. Democrats can’t be an opposition party because they are too busy opposing themselves.

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    These cucks couldn’t plot a network sitcom. I say bring it bitches and then if they cheat to win again, we go to the next democracy-protecting box.

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    Yeah, I’m fully convinced; “centrist democrats” are on the GOP payroll. Getting rid of these fucks will probably be more impactful than getting rid of the GOP. Kind of hard to vote for an opposition to the Republicans that has absolutely no interest in, you know, opposing.

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      It’s a ratchet moving things to corporate controlled fascism. And, yes, I’ve considered primaries to be more important than the general elections for quite a while now.

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      More accurately, the Democratic establishment is working for the same people as the Republican establishment. No funding flows from the GOP to the DNC, but they both drink from the same stream.