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The victories were a clear rebuke of Trump’s politics, but also a referendum on the Democratic party’s own centrism that is complicit in the violence of masked men hunting immigrants, the funding of a genocide and the denial of healthcare to citizens of the world’s wealthiest country.
…Hakeem Jeffries, who is running for speaker of the House, will not commit to holding a vote on abolishing ICE. He opposes Medicare for All. He has said he will not hold Trump accountable for the human rights violations committed, portraying it as a question of “getting even” rather than achieving justice where it was denied. Chuck Schumer, who holds similar positions, has an extraordinarily low approval rating – yet plans to run for majority leader in the Senate. Electeds are questioning whether these men should hold these roles.
But the dissent must also come from us, as it has been. We need to demand an end to the fast violence of guns on our streets trained on our neighbors, bombs dropped from the sky and the slow violence of people dying because their healthcare was denied or their food stamps were cut.
We need to organize, and mobilize, to demand the multi-racial democracy we were promised – not a playground for the rich to get richer on the time and labor and lives of the poor.
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Hopefully the people can move forward without too many politicians getting in their way.
“Centrists” who would sooner vote Republican (like Haley Stevens) than support any truly progressive policy.
News to nobody but “centrists” and MAGAts.
No more medical bankruptcies or crazy bills, and costs less than the current system. Healthcare is not lost when the owner eliminates your job in a recession and out of work for a year or more. Too many think they have theirs and won’t lose it and that’s selfish. Do better, demand better, it’s not hard to vote for that each time until it passes.
it’s not hard to vote for that each time until it passes.
It is - because unless you’re willing to primary and punish the Democratic Party for not doing this, they’ll do exactly what they’ve done since 2008. Promise it, then backpedal once in power.
I mean, a progressive here would be a centrist in most countries. So in a way, yes, trying to drag the center closer to the actual center.
Even Jon Ossof was campaigning on Universal Healthcare.
Is he Medicare for All single payer, or the stupid public option Medicare for America which lets insurers dump their expensive patients onto the government plan then point at it for being inefficient?
Edit: he’s a snake pushing a public option. Fuck incrementalists, they’re the same radical centrists that got us into this mess.
Centrists won’t stand anything that has happened under this administration, and will vote to repeal tariffs, defund the Iran war, and vote for real investigations of the corruption. If they dont, then they are with the proto fascists.
I’ve got news for you that might seem like clairvoyance.
Well then those aren’t centrists. Those are collaborators.
That’s what centrism is. The half way point between concentration camps and healthcare for all is still fascism.
Lol thinking you’ll be getting Healthcare for all. It will be socialism for the armed forces and brown shirts only.
That’s currently how it is right now, you incredibly dense mung bean.
And healthcare for all is so difficult, only 42/43 developed nations and 155/208 nations on Earth have managed to do it. The US has the same healthcare access as fucking Somalia.
Manhattan project… no problem Human genome project… easy Copying an effective Healthcare system from 42 other developed countries… sorry we can’t because profit.
When the overton window is skewed so far to the right like it is in the USA, what passes for centerism is still way off towards the right wing.
Yup. And here’s how it got there . . . .
Of course not. Centrists kept telling people to not even vote.
Not all of them. There were centrists like Haley Stevens telling people to get out and vote Republican.
It did in Kansas, at least W/R/T the senate seat.
That being said, Hamilton doesn’t take AIPAC money and is anti-Schumer.
Fuck Jeffries and Schumer, both of those fuckers are selfish assholes who just want to go back to the status quo so they can keep collecting their bribes in peace.
All centrism is is political cowardice. Just spend some research and pick a side.
They will, the status quo is what got us Trump in the first place. Look at all the progressives who ran. They crushed it. Centrists don’t have the popularity to draw voters. All the progress gained will be lost because the DNC will squander it with infighting and will try to prop up an unpopular candidate like Hillary.
Gavin Newsome is just such a perfect embodiment of everything wrong with the DNC, I feel he will be the one foisted upon us all.
South Carolina won a D senate seat with a moderate
The ‘moderate’ running on Bernie’s exact platform down to every single word spoken?
Does it ever?
It did for Bill Clinton and they’ve been chasing that high for decades. Both bribes and Blue No Matter Who votes! 🤤
AIPAC WON
I think AIPAC and Israel are in their death throes
AIPAC probably have already rebranded and or splintered into a hundered new organizations. That’s how I would do it at least.
They already are doing, funnelling more money through UDP these days. That’s why we need sites like trackaipac.com to keep tabs on it. If they had splintered years ago, it would have worked better. I think people can generally see what’s up nowadays.
Israel isn’t going anywhere. Bibi’s regime maybe but there’s nothing indicating that the state itself is in jeopardy.
It’s beautiful to see people finally waking up to their terroristic state.
Still a long way to go, but we are on the right path and it is righteous.
Its a bitter pill to swallow when people realize the harm we’ve caused. But sometimes medicine is very bitter.
I mean, Abdul barely won so I wouldn’t say going really far left just automatically works either. If I grant that centrist just means liberal (which is left of center), I think what the midterms taught us is that it depends on the state since most of the candidates that won would be considered too far right by more progressive leaning people. In other words, the overton window is slightly different in each state, and thus some policies that would be considered moderate in New York would be considered radical in Mississippi
What is “really far left” to you?
Abdul barely won after fighting not only the Republicans, but also the Democratic party. It sure seems like Progressive ideas are more popular than MAGA and Centrisim combined. I think the lesson here is that if Dems lean into their Progressive wing instead of trying to suppress it, they’ll win with FDR numbers.
Fighting against the Democratic party? Is Haley Stevens the entire democratic party now or something? Kamala Harris and Obama tried to help Abdul win after the primaries
Haley Steven’s was the Centrist pick. She was the preferred candidate of Chuck Schumer. All those insanely Islamophobic attacks launched against Abdul during the general were given legitimacy because they were Dem party attacks in the primary. In fact, they were agreeing that Abdul was saying some dangerously radical things and he needed to moderate his position in order to win. The Dem leadership threw their weight behind Haley Steven’s in the primary and when she lost, they waited a long, long time to begrudgingly support Abdul only when it was clear he had enough popular support to win.
While it is good that Kamala Harris and Barack Obama eventually supported Abdul, it was clear they hopped on the bandwagon only after checking where the wind was blowing. They did not support him out of party loyalty or because they align with his political views; they supported him when it was clear they would benefit politically from doing so. Up until that point, they were perfectly content to wait in the background as Abdul suffered from the most blatant racist attacks ever launched against a political candidate since their own campaigns. If you recall, Abdul spoke with Obama shortly after winning the primary and asked Obama to campaign and support him. Seemingly, Obama declined since Abdul told the press, “I really hope he campaigns with me.”
In case you need it spelled out:
Dem party launches racist attacks in primary. MAGA uses those racist attack in the general. Centrist Dems offer legitimacy to the racism by saying, “Yeah MAGA has some good points. This guy is kinda problematic.” Abdul’s movement becomes undeniably popular. Some Centrists hop on the bandwagon. Haley Stevens nukes her career in the 11th hour. The rest of the Dem party is forced to endorse Abdul.
Just like with Mamdani and the Demos letting Cujo run as a spoiler candidate.
Liberal is the center upon which the whole left/right is gauged against. It’s the right that keeps denying that.
Maybe back then, but the Republican party has drifted so far right that a centrist today in America would have to be fascist-lite, no?
