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People should be allowed to exist

Social programs aren't communism

The system isn't working for the people

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I've changed my mind on this.

Let the DNC go full MAGA and when they lose, because they will lose, they get the heat and we can eject them forever. At least sit them in a corner.

Progressives, you fight if you want but I don't believe the elections will be fair so it's a win win for you.

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

So, is this finally time to give up the 1.5 party system and promote/vote independent? One party has fallen out of favor, another one is on track to do the same, now the first one joins in the nosedive...

When I suggested it last year, I was called a Russian troll who tries to win more votes for Trump or something. The fucker won anyway. What's your excuse now?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Should be no excuse.

Don't get me wrong, I'll keep voting dnc until a viable alternative emerges but I'm operating under the assumption that elections won't be free or fair moving forward.

I spent 8 years on the project of harm reduction but the DNC, with all their "political acumen" couldn't beat the biggest loser I've ever witnessed, donald trump. Now the only thing left to do is focus on local shit. To be fair I never even had a chance to contribute to a national election based on what state I'm in.

Either way I'm open to anything now. 8 years is too long to work on a project and turn up with nothing. The DNC should be ashamed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Apparently (according to some random comment on Reddit where this was posted) this was written by an organization called "Third Way", that doesn't actually have influence in the government or either political party

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

LMFAO. Get a fucking clue

[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 months ago

Love America, stop letting extremists speak for us, get involved with regular people, foster community, and govern better. The democrats might have a chance after all.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

What would happen if everyone registered republican and fractured the party from the inside

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Look everyone! Words! in a meme! It has to be true! Get your pitchforks fellow leftists! The meme said we hunt tonight!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

"Ow my balls"

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (2 children)

"So it turns out veering gradually to the right just isn't working for us, it's probably the 'far left's' fault"

I knew as a European that the US only had two right wing parties, with the democratic party sitting firmly to the right of most of our centrist parties here, but this is just fucking stupid.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

It's happening here too woth the German SPD or Britain's Labour (on migration at least)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Veering gradually to the right doesn’t work, let’s move harder to the right than previous cycles

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

This is the Ratchet effect in action. Democrats did not heed the warnings about extremist right-wing propaganda spreading like wildfire. They now assume the voter basis is inherently fascist, and race to appease them.

Democrats are equally to blame for things, like the modern racist slave trade that is the "corrections" system. This puts them with the camp of critical-race-theory enemies. Many of them are transphobic as-fuck, which also puts them (partly) in the anti-gender camp.

I did not cite genocide and war-crimes in the above paragraph, because so many of you have made clear you are fine with it.

Centrists have made it clear, time and again, that they value middle-of-the-road fallacy above human lives, and they are willing to put those lives on the line to reifytheir trolley problem fetish. The centrist is someone who will literally say to Hitler "I will defend to the death your right to express your hate" and at the same time say to the trans woman "I will have to reduce your freedom of expression, because it is unpopular with my voter base, and we risk devolving into fascism".

This is how we got here. These mfers come every 4 years begging for leftist and anarchist votes, because the alternative is fascism. But they were themselves fascist the whole time, only with a broader social support. Now they lose that broader social support because 10 years of relentless, ludicrously funded propaganda have shifted the discussion 100 years back, they now bend over backwards to earn that social support again. This in unscrupulous.

In turn, it lends legitimacy to neofascism and shifts the institutional landscape even further. We should not concede one inch to anyone trying to water down human rights for political gain. Human rights are to be taken as a whole, especially at the times that the most illiterate and unnuanced fragile white masculinity reclaims racism, homophobia, transphobia and ableism with renewed confidence, this is not the time to let them score popularity points.

In fact, we need to escalate. The more we trigger the fascist voter base the better. Destroy the common sense, of the equal-opportunity capitalism apologist social democrat.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

It always amazes me to see how clueless the Democrats are.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

I don't understand, so their goal is to shift from centrists to conservatives? What is even happening right now?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Holy shit you guys are fucked.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

This seems to be happening everywhere – the whole political spectrum adopting the far right's positions because 'it's what gets votes'.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

Yeah, that's a depressing read

[–] [email protected] 51 points 3 months ago (3 children)

move away from the dominance of small-dollar donors

"Only accept money from rich people."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Dominance from... People giving you money because they like you? People who can't call you up to make or break your next election based on how you vote today?

Like even if you take it at face value and pretend it's all above board... What the fuck could you possibly mean by that?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

And at the same time “get out of elite circles”

Democrats are fucking twisted.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Why not? They're easier to please! Agenda: change nothing.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

They have a proven track record already!

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