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How come Bernie, AOC, Crockett etc. don't start their own party? They can pledge to vote with the dems where it makes sense and they have enough political capital to continue getting elected. Seems like an ideal time to create a 3rd (actual alternative) party, no?
It might force the republicans to create an alt right and centre right party too which I feel would erode some of the alt right because from experience most Americans are not that alt right.
Bernie already runs as an Independent!
Uh oh! That's SURE to PISS OFF a couple Republicans who would NEVER vote for Democrats!
Fuck yeah!
Meanwhile, the party leadership is thinking "maybe bigger paddles next time?"
And she's fucking right.
The boomers except for Bernie have got to go. (which does not include Nancy, she's fucking silent generation)
We need ACTUAL young blood, not 74-years-young.
If public schools were segregated when you attended school you should step down.
Honestly I think Bernie should go too. He deserves a good retirement after a long career of solid work. We need people in office who can run the show for the next thirty years.
Bernie should go if and only if he's passing the torch to a suitable replacement. (or by his own choice whenever that would be)
I will miss him, but it's better to select a successor to endorse than to die in office
He deserves it, but he is staying alive by sheer force of patriotism and duty. I don't think he knows how or wants to retire. Not while things are still so fucked up
Yeah me too, he should be trying to find like minded talent to fill his seat. And maybe work on building the "resistance".
He is great but he is also aging.
The Democratic Party has been saying Bernie is too old for over 10 years and yet he’s still has more energy & competency than 95% of the lot. He absolutely deserves a good retirement but he’ll never get that.
He's doing a great job. When I say Pelosi and Schumer should go, it's because they're cowards at best and traitors at worst and they should be replaced by young people who are...not those things. When I say Sanders should go, it's because he's done a great job, he deserves a vacation and the opportunity to write his memoirs, and there should be someone younger at the ready to take the mantle.
I want AOC, Warren, Jasmine Crockett, and Buttigeg. They have been the only politicians in rank that I've felt have been representing. And Walz, too.
I would like for them to split off from the party and start a new movement dedicated to fighting for the people. They have the influence to start a way stronger 3rd party than modern is politics has ever seen.
At bare minimum, they should band together as a new sect of the Democratic Party and establish that their ring of the party advocates for people instead of oligarchs.
They need to do a progressive takeover of the democratic party. Just like how the MAGA extremists took over the republic party
I agree with this. The time to split is now.
Elizabeth Warren talks a big game, but she shrivels under pressure. I'd love her if she were half the person she claims to be.
Don't forget Bernie, he's been going around the country holding how to fight the oligarchy rallies
Yeah 😢 It's sad that an 83 year old is one of our strongest fighters. I believe he is also not seeking reelection.
He's not far off my mother's age and she's doing great so I have that to compare to but jaaayyysus.... I would not want to be fighting as hard as he is at his age. Man deserves some rest.