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[–] [email protected] 12 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Hard to win primaries when the party itself stacks the deck against you. Or just doesn't bother to have them at all

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

True, although I believe things only got so bad after the party elite had became isolated from their base, and the above is how they initially became isolated from them in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe, but it happened decades ago, before most of the modern left were old enough to intervene.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

I suppose you're right. They'd been shifting for a long time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago

Yup, and now they're at the point of full on fascist genocide, and their base will engage in the most disgusting dishonesty to defend it.