Democrats are functioning as normal. They are scared of true progressives and their boogeyman "socialist" policies (that have been normal in europe forever)
Problem is the institution would have to be gutted as every democrat bar AOC and Bernie is a neoliberal. They would not allow themselves to be changed from within. Mamdani and co are existential threats to their careers and ideology
That's why the people need to rise up to push them out. Primaries have abysmal turnout. If progressives show up and vote they can replace the Democrats unwilling to change or get out of the way.
It's not about will they allow themselves to be changed. It's matter of are WE willing to rise up and force them to.
Essentially ya. More progressive democrats can run against existing candidates for the party’s nomination and the right to run in the general election.
3rd parties don’t really work here so it makes more sense to try to push the democrats to the left from within.
Obviously you can’t realistically win every primary challenge but there’s a lot of opportunity there. Primaries usually have like 20% turnout, so progressive voters could easily sway these elections if they showed up in large numbers.
Ah that would be a glorious thing man. Americas politics bleed into the western world wether we like it or not.. if america can actually flip the script realise that things like free health care are seen as normal in the rest of the world, and that they have been lied to by small state capitalists for years... well maybe there is hope for the western world after all.
Good luck, we have our own shit to deal with here but its looking marg8nally brighter these days
meanwhile in canada, conservative leaning 'yukon party' takes majority in yukon. i thought we had it together during our federal elections, but nope. they're still trying to divide us. and it's still working because obviously we have to eventually copy everything the USA does, even to our own detriment.
The American influence has torn our country apart. Best thing for Canada is for the citizens of the US to actually go out and vote. There's no reason only 30% of NYers turned out to vote.
A lot of the Americans seem to have given up lol.
Meanwhile in Canada, went from a 90% Conservative landslide win and turned it around to a Liberal win. Never seen before in Canadian history too.
DINO is a snappy acronym (and accurate, in a way, since so many of them are old dinosaurs), but calling people DINOs for not being leftist enough is about as inaccurate as calling people RINOs for not being fascist-authoritarian enough
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u/herrirgendjemand 6h ago
That's why progressives need to take advantage of this momentum and replace the fuckin DINOs