• Bakkoda
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    01 month ago

    I mean a few years ago or any time during the election cycle would have also been very welcome but no time like the present.

    • @[email protected]
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      01 month ago

      Bernie has been doing this for as long as I knew he existed, which admittedly isn’t overly long. I think AOC has come to realize that working with the party leaders is a losing proposition and is moving to a grassroots campaign. It’s worth keeping in mind she’s only had her seat for 6 years.

  • BigFig
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    01 month ago

    These two out here organizing while the Democrats do absolutely fuck all (and behind close doors have discussed EMBRACING the American first movement)

    • Sixty
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      01 month ago

      Within the narrow vision of trying to change things from within an actively crumbling system that might not exist by the next time an election is supposed to happen, they’re the best bet there. From what I can glean, the message at these rallies has basically been: vote out status-quo Democrats.

      So we’ll see how that goes.

    • @[email protected]
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      01 month ago

      And then they’ll rig the dnc so their legacy candidate is on the ballot instead who we really want.

      • @[email protected]
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        01 month ago

        For anyone who wants to say “just try to transform the party like Trump did with the Republicans”. Shut the fuck up, you are also a part of the problem. The transformation of the Republican Party was speed up by Trump and his cult of personality but it began decades ago. Look towards Bush Jr, Bush Sr, Regan, Nixon and you can see the rot runs far deeper than just Trump.

        The Democratic Party has no quick fix to save it, since Lyndon B Johnson the party has followed the Republicans’ move further right. Nothing we do now will meaningfully pull the party back to the left in time. The rot runs far deeper than many want to admit. The party is bought by billionaires and the leadership knows it.

        The Republican Party was founded in 1854 and won the presidency just 6 years later. That is faster than it will take to reform an entirely rotten and complicit party. Time to move on from a dying party, there’s just not the time to remove the rot and fix the extensive damage.

        • @[email protected]
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          01 month ago

          Resistance is impossible without a strong and unified Democratic party. You’re the problem, you’re a weakness.

          • @[email protected]
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            01 month ago

            The Democratic Party enables its own disunity, the leadership lets people like Cuck Schumer stay within its ranks and lets them have positions of authority. Have fun watching them support more garbage candidates even when it’s obvious establishment Democrats are loathed by the voters.

            • @[email protected]
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              01 month ago

              And yet the Democratic party is the only vehicle we have for enacting the kind of change we need right now. Takeover is the solution.

  • @[email protected]
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    1 month ago

    I mean

    Colorado voted for dems in the presidential and in 4 out of 8 congressional districts (greeley is part of #8 which was won by conservatives by 0.74% margin)

    It just seems a little unusual to me to call it a conservative area. Greeley is just a ways north of Denver.

    • @[email protected]
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      01 month ago

      We get it, you’re downplaying the popularity of progressive policy.

      To that end, no nit can go unpicked.

      • @[email protected]
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        01 month ago

        I do, personally, I care a lot about accuracy, honesty, and political nuances.

        I think it’s very useful for us while we’re making plans. They chose the best congressional district to campaign in, for sure, but as a whole Colorado seems low value compared to flip states.

  • @[email protected]
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    01 month ago

    What does she mean “in every dimension” possible? Are we talking like non-Euclidean space, or like the Nether?

  • @[email protected]
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    Lemmy users with legal degrees should draft up a “Project Progressive Liberty” playbook as a counter to project 2025 crap.