ManyRoads@lemmy.sdf.org to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoMartin Niemöller: "First they came for the Socialists..."encyclopedia.ushmm.orgexternal-linkmessage-square26fedilinkarrow-up1158arrow-down15file-text
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minus-squareeestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·20 hours agoI think the left is relatively united by the left’s standards. The issue is that the Democratic party establishment is not part of the left.
minus-squareClent@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 hours agoThen we take it and remake it. There is no time to create a new party and all recent efforts have failed.
minus-squareeestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 hours agoI think that needs to take the form of other groups who are willing to vote in coalition with the democrats, but not part of them. The democrats are far better than the Republicans at exactly one thing: crushing their base and excluding it from power.
minus-squareClent@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·26 minutes agoI think the fastest option is to take over the party. If the right wing nut jobs could do it it the republicans, certainly we can as well.
I think the left is relatively united by the left’s standards.
The issue is that the Democratic party establishment is not part of the left.
Then we take it and remake it.
There is no time to create a new party and all recent efforts have failed.
I think that needs to take the form of other groups who are willing to vote in coalition with the democrats, but not part of them.
The democrats are far better than the Republicans at exactly one thing: crushing their base and excluding it from power.
I think the fastest option is to take over the party. If the right wing nut jobs could do it it the republicans, certainly we can as well.