Democratic political strategy

  • PugJesus@lemmy.world
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    8 minutes ago

    The rightward shift of the GOP and the tendency of the seemingly infinite number of spineless Dem careerist politicians to seek compromise is very real, but please remember the 90s and 2000s, everyone. They were not as rosy and left-wing as you remember; while not nearly enough, the Dems are notably more left than they were then.

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    3 hours ago

    Meet me in the middle, says the unjust man. You take a step towards him, he takes a step back. Meet me in the middle, says the unjust man.

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    45 minutes ago

    If there’s so much appetite for a progressive/socialist party in the USA, how come there isn’t one that gets a significant amount of financing and votes?

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      29 minutes ago

      Because that wouldn’t be in the interest of the billionaire class so it’s actively suppressed. I mean, the government killed Malcolm X and MLK Jr. There’s no telling how many more. Look at the response to BLM or the pro-Palestinian protest in comparison to the Jan 6 traitors. The left are painted as radicals for wanting equality and healthcare, while the right gets a free pass on being pedophiles, con men, and foreign assets.

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        16 minutes ago

        I’m talking about a party with a platform, doing an actual campaign to get people elected, not a protest movement.

        Look at how much money Harris managed to get from regular people, you would believe the left would be able to organize more than just protests, that there would be the Republicans, the Democrats AND the Progressives (or whatever the name it would have)…

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      4 hours ago

      I think the question they ask is more like “why are people voting for the other side?” …leading to “we need to be more like them”

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          There’s also the choice of doing what Bernie did, and build up an alternative from the local level, but that would require people to realise that politics aren’t restricted to TV-level races nor snooze for 4 years.

          If Americans did that in large scale they could to the democratic party the reverse of what the tea party did to the republican party.

  • adarza@lemmy.ca
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    5 hours ago

    just playin’ the long game. won’t be long now and it will loop around to the far left.