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You mean Hilary. This is clearly the chance to beat that dead horse again!
They already could have had a progressive candidate in 2016. They chose otherwise.
They will.
They're stupid people.
There's always working for a campaign to help them win.
So who's the progressive darling?
. . .
Anyone?
Probably AOC she's young and actually seems to have some amount of moral character. She announces she's trying to get elected and I'll start getting every person I can on board to help her campaign.
They don't do that. They're just performative.
Asking them to do anything more than leave a snarky comment or meme about how both sides are the same is too big of an ask.
Democrats would rather lose their power "temporarily" than lose their influence permanently with a progressive.
We need a third party like four months ago. We are running out of time to challenge the standing democrats.
Personally, I would be ok with J.B. Pritzker. Don't love that he's a billionaire. On the other hand, he's the best governor Illinois has had in ages and seems to be trying to do right by his constituents.
I would not be happy about Pritzker as the dem nominee...
...Because then he wouldn't be my governor anymore :(
Pritzker's the man. It pains me to praise a billionaire but he's been an AWESOME governor. Wish we could get a Pritzker-type for Chicago mayor instead of these chucklefucks we keep electing.
It'll be Shapiro or Blinken. Its still all about the $$ at the DNC. Nothing else matters.
Yeah I agree. It’s really two flavors of the billionaire supporters and no real second party.
Be LOUD. Get in touch. Make it unambiguously clear that we need to pivot radically left.
Of course they will. Either pick them or they'll send it all to hell. Even now they probably think this Trump stint will make voters desperate for their next candidate.
Captive audience, it’s why they felt so confident cozying up to Republicans like the Cheneys, because what are the left going to do, not vote?
It’s great really, you perpetuate a problem and constantly blame the people trying to actually bring about much needed change for the problem.
Okay this was true until the DNC leadership election, but the current leadership leans just left enough that they could go either way.
Right, which is why Ken Martins first act was to put the most centrist, business friendly, working with the far right focussed, uber zionist rebuttal person he could find to Trumps state of the union, Slotkin. he had to prostrate himself at the AIPAC altar first thing. Turning over a new leaf at the DNC, clearly. Things are all so different now. And look at how the new DLC is embracing progressives so warmly right now.
Fair enough. I didn't know about the state of the union stuff.
Except the chair has stated he is fine with ~~bribes~~ donations from “good billionaires”, so we all know it’s going to be the status quo again with them.
I mean if you believe in your own moral integrity and the work you're doing it makes perfect sense to be willing in principle to accept billionaire money. Now I'm not saying he will or won't be more of the same, but unless you're a hardline leftist (which I don't think anyone is expecting Ken Martin to be) the only correct answer to "will you accept billionaire money" is "yes".
The DNC's issue isn't a lack of money, they didn't lose because they didn't buy enough interviews with podcasters.
They lost because outside of Bernie and the Squad, they had no ethics, basically stood for nothing, and at times outright accepted bribes to support genocide.
The only correct answer is "no".
That's pretty much a given.
and conspire to defeat whatever progressive is winning, even though they’ll be the only one that can defeat trump’s third term
Of course they will. Liberalism is a center-right ideology, they're closer to fascists than leftists.
It's just a way to get minorities to vote for you.
Their good old performative "Fight for Equality" which very pointedly ignores Wealth Inequality and Wealth Discrimination which curiously, are not only the biggest of them all by a huge margin, but are even the mechanisms that multiply many-fold the negative consequences (and hence the hurt) from other kinds of inequality and discrimination, AND stop the descendants of the victims of past discrimination from pulling themselves out from the hole past discrimination threw their ancestors into (in simple terms: if you were thrown into poverty by discrimination, the poverty keeps the hurt going even after the discriminatory actions have stopped and will make it very likely your descendants are stuck there and keep on suffering).
They're literaly doing the very minimum (when measured by actual effects) they can for Equality whilst claiming they're "Fighting for Equality" as loud as they can, in order to claim they're "helping the disfavored" and hence are there for the many not the few.