politics
Welcome to the discussion of US Politics!
Rules:
- Post only links to articles, Title must fairly describe link contents. If your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive. Do not post entire articles in the body or in the comments.
Links must be to the original source, not an aggregator like Google Amp, MSN, or Yahoo.
Example:
- Articles must be relevant to politics. Links must be to quality and original content. Articles should be worth reading. Clickbait, stub articles, and rehosted or stolen content are not allowed. Check your source for Reliability and Bias here.
- Be civil, No violations of TOS. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
- No memes, trolling, or low-effort comments. Reposts, misinformation, off-topic, trolling, or offensive. Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.
- Vote based on comment quality, not agreement. This community aims to foster discussion; please reward people for putting effort into articulating their viewpoint, even if you disagree with it.
- No hate speech, slurs, celebrating death, advocating violence, or abusive language. This will result in a ban. Usernames containing racist, or inappropriate slurs will be banned without warning
We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.
All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.
That's all the rules!
Civic Links
• Congressional Awards Program
• Library of Congress Legislative Resources
• U.S. House of Representatives
Partnered Communities:
• News
view the rest of the comments
Remember when the Democrats cock blocked AOC from the oversight committee in favor of a 75 year old with esophageal cancer, that ended up dying anyway? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Instead of thinking about that unrelated grudge you have, how about we focus on how this happened?
Mamdani won because WE SHOWED UP and VOTED IN THE PRIMARY.
This is how we replace the establishment centrists in the Democratic Party.
VOTE. IN. PRIMARIES.
You guys showed up and voted into the primary because you got a good candidate to vote for. You also got a candidate that decided listening to why immigrants voted for Donald Trump and trying to address their concerns are far more productive than blaming them for the loss in 2024. I see plenty of democrat supporters in Lemmy that are doing the exact opposite and gloated over the fact that these people are getting fucked over by Trump. That's not how you win back voters, as proven by Mamdani here.
My point is we get them ALL THE TIME. People just don’t learn about them and show up for them. Congressional primaries see less than 15% turnout, yet people wonder why nothing changes. It’s simple. Retirees always vote in primaries and pick the centrist. That’s why everything stays the same. The DNC is not ‘handing us bad candidates’ in the general. We’re not picking the good candidates in the primary.
I get what you're saying. My point is that people don't pay attention because they don't see someone that actually listens to them. If a candidate was listening to them, their existence would be known to most of the people who don't show up for the primary and they would've shown up.
Right. That’s the problem. The candidates aren’t trying to date us. We are supposed to be selecting OUR representation. This is the message we should be sharing with one another proving how political engagement actually changes things, instead of the same old misinformation about ‘the DNC controlling everything’ and ‘two wings of the same bird’ nonsense. We just proved that turnout = change. We need more people to take this seriously.
No, the political candidates are trying to gain their votes, which is more serious than "dating". If they can't even put in the effort to show themselves as a listener, why would anyone trust that they will fight for them to change the system to fix their problems?
Your logic completely relies on an ideal form that most Americans cannot hope to achieve due to them living paycheck to paycheck and having more direct problems they need to care about.
What Mamdani has proven is that if you show that you're willing to listen to them, they will show up for you for the primary despite them not being engaged in politics. Did you think the reason all these people are showing up to vote because they're suddenly well-informed on the political landscape and looked into each candidate's history to make the right choice? I doubt that. I also doubt they will show up to the next primary if the candidates are just as unexciting as previous primaries.
You misunderstand. I’m saying people don’t want big money candidates, right? We want new, progressive, people like us. Those candidates run often, but they don’t have the money to reach you. If we did our job of researching and voting for all of the candidates in every primary we are eligible to vote in, we wouldn’t have a government full of career incumbents.
Mamdani had grown a network of 50k people canvassing NYC for him. That’s hardly possible in Texas districts without a big fuel budget. We need to do our job of actively looking for our representation in every primary, rather than rewarding the wealthy ones that can afford to show up in our living rooms.
There's a primary for his now vacant seat this Saturday if anyone here is in that district (VA-11) and wants to avoid a repeat. Special election is in September
There are some progressives running in that primary
And then my representative got slotted in to the position, and then lost it a few days ago to a more progressive rep when they had a proper vote.
And his dying allowed the One Big Booftiful Bill to get through?