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Democratic National Committee vice chair David Hogg's plan to spend $20 million to primary older Democratic incumbents in Congress has sparked intense anger from some lawmakers.

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

It's clear Democrats aren't interested in winning. Being a anti gun zealot is not going to win elections in the USA.

Democrats will not fight for me and my rights even in the best of times, so i would never in a trillion fucking years be okay with disarming. My body my choice in how I defend myself.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 53 seconds ago

Six out of ten Americans favor stricter gun laws. Every year we lose the equivalent to a war in lives to gun violence. It is not just lives lost either. Millions of Americans live their lives in fear due to gun violence. Almost 60 percent of Americans know someone lost to gun violence.

Over 5 Million women are threatened by guns every year and we lose more children to gun deaths than the rest of the world combined. Guns are a cancer on our society.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago

We've been past the fume stage for a fucking while

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

They should have done this years ago. This opens the party to get republicans playing democrats to take over that party. We have seen this with at least 10 democrats constantly voting with republicans or a democrat completely switching parties during their term. Split the damn party or go home.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago

Even the complaints against Hogg are just virtue signaling.

No action. Ever.

They are complicit.

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

LO AND BEHOLD M'LORD.

I was just talking about how the dems are ineffective and have no strategy, and here's another one to add to my list of sources.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

How can you say democrats don't do anything?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago

Bet they do more against primary challengers than they ever have or ever will against fascists.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

I agree with the older Dems, but not for their reasons.

No, we should not support the candidates that Hogg supports. Because Hogg is very opposed to 2A rights, and ipso facto any candidate that he supports will also be opposed to 2A rights. And if you think that we're gonna just vote our way out of this, I've got some very, very bad news for you.

Primary the old fucks with young leftists (hopefully ones that actually understand economics and tax policy)? Absolutely! Primary them with ones that ideologically aligned with Hogg? No.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago

Once they're primaried, people can vote for whoever is the better candidate.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 hours ago

Hogg is 100% right and they are just whining like babies when they should be doing their effing jobs.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 hours ago

Take traitor Jeffries’s request to Justice Democrats seriously. Unseat that piece of shit while he’s minority leader.

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