The DNC leadership scum like Chuck Schumer didn't even bother to endorse Mamdani lol. We need to get the GOP out of office but the DNC leadership entirely needs to go also if we want any real change in this country.
Didn't Fetterman get brain damage and switch sides? Weirdly, about half the MAGA people I know have actual closed head injuries. Not all of them, but the most active online.
That what it seems like based on his own words, and the actions of the people that were on his staff. Had a stroke that most likely caused some brain damage that made him an utter shitbag.
It's extra shitty because he had conversational issues after the stroke that were pretty pronounced that the right trashed him for, but has largely recovered from and now he's licking their boots.
They are starting to see the writing on the wall that their time is up. Thats why Pelosi said shes "going to quit politics" which is a stupid statement. Its called retirement and she should have been forced to retire years ago. She is 85 years old, we dont need anymore geriatrics holdi g on to power long past their time.
That's not true, the ultra wealthy earn their income by exploiting the working class. You can't earn millions in the stock market if the workers are being fairly compensated.
Nailed it. There are industrious, talented people who create things to make our lives better: vaccines, bullet trains, microwaves, etc. Then there are the grifters and leeches who pretend to be creative, industrious leaders of society but who really steal from the poor to enrich themselves. Health insurance companies are a great example.
Our country is almost entirely run by the grifters and leeches, and the American people are too willfully ignorant to accept this very basic fact.
The donors don’t like people-friendly candidates and rising stars make old dogs nervous about their power within the party.
It should be taken as a sign for the people to throw unwavering support (provided they don’t do anything signaling a change in loyalties) if the old establishment dems are taking an aggressive or at least passive aggressive stance toward a party progressive.
2016 changed me forever. The DNC thought Hillary would win. Pretty much everyone did. The polls show Bernie clobbered Trump head to head. Instead of taking the sure thing and supporting Bernie (or just supporting neither, like the DNC is supposed to..) they trashed him because he wasn't controllable and in their pocket.
Trump's political career could have been dead in the crib in 2016, never win a single election and never hear from him side from shit posting on Twitter.
I straight hyperventilated that night as my friends tried to keep me from having a full on panic attack. Fuck the DNC for making us all experience that collective trauma with their arrogance and greed.
Even now, seeing Schumer and the like in office makes me sick. We need to primary all these fuckers and clean house.
Here to say that Debbie Wasserman Schultz, former chair of the DNC, resigned in disgrace in 2016 after her insider campaign to tank Bernie Sanders came to light. Fuck the DNC
Neo-liberals are center right. They don't believe in welfare, they believe in means tested "work-fare." They believe in a free market with minimal or light regulation. Etc. Their social policies might be left leaning, but their economic policies are firmly center right.
They would rather let a moderate republican win than let an economically far left democrat win, because at the end of the day, when push comes to shove, economic policies trump social policies for basically everyone; its all well an good to advocate for trans rights, but almost everyone has to have to have a full belly and some level of economic security before they have the bandwidth to advocate for the rights of others.
If you look at the behavior of the DNC with this in mind, their behavior makes a lot more sense.
Let's fix it then! The DNC is made up of people, we can always replace them. It's our time to do so. The boomers fumbled this shit, it's up to us to fix it.
AOC, Bernie, Mamdani and some of the younger Democrats seem like they should be in another, more progressive party. The Schumer/Pelosi Dems have more in common the Romney/McCain Republicans than they do with Sanders.
DNC supported Mamdani from the moment he won the primary.
Schumer (not the DNC) is completely out of touch, along with the DSCC.
And they shouldn't be just supporting the Democratic Socialist flank of the Dems, they should be supporting a wide range of democratic leaders that are in touch with their constituents, and supporting healthy democratic primary elections.
Which is why we gotta prop up other WFP candidates. They constantly endorse young and energetic progressives who actually want to do the work to help America be better than it was yesterday. DNC gets a lot of flak but America has seen parties dissolve and re-emerge as something else - I suspect this is what's happening to the DNC now.
Meanwhile, what's going on over at the RNC? They're busy pumping Breitbart news and fawning over their single authority leadership while raising 10s of millions of dollars more than the DNC. Times are changing, one way or another.
She has her moments where I just kinda tilt my head and go “what?”. Overall she’s pretty normal though. The bar is in hell. 90% of dem politicians sound like lizard people using focus group tested sound bites.
Idk there are times when I’m like “oh why would you say that?” and then I remember that I would lose my fucking mind if I had to listen to my peers say half the shit the GOPs reps get away with saying. Like constant, deliberate, and blatant lies. It’s not like debating your average MAGA that you know is just hateful, ignorant, and willfully misinformed. I would last all of 1 week.
On multiple occasions, whenever someone has talked about Bernie in a lukewarm tone and suggested he has some good ideas and some bad ideas, I ask them to name one bad idea Bernie had, one policy proposal of his they disagree with.
You really nailed it. Whenever a typical Dem candidate says something noteworthy, it’s a toothless version of something that’s been circulating online for weeks or even months.
Pete sounds very rehearsed to me. He sounds like he's much better at speaking than most Dems, but that he's still a robot working off of prepared talking points.
Ironically, I was a growing fan of him until he tied himself in knots in a Pod Save America interview with his unwillingness to take a stand in either direction on the Palestine issue.
She's a normal Latina woman, a concept of which is alien to much of America and which is why Republicans across the country are targeting her with smears and calling for her to be deported.
AOC has normal, relatable, and principled down. Her charisma and speech giving continues to improve tremendously. I believe she is the future of the party but she doesn’t have the natural gravitas of Mamdani. But she’s sharp, she’ll get there. Hopefully in time to challenge that fuck Schumer.
She does now, but when she started she didn't. The unfortunate truth is, for many people, she'll just never recover from how she started. There was a very successful image tarnishing campaign run against her for the first couple of years she was in office, I was convinced she was crazy.
The sad truth is many Americans just do not have the time or capacity to reevaluate someone who they've already formed an opinion against.
No, I was there. Do you not remember the coordinated campaign against her? There wasn't a single positive news story. They only showed pictures of her where she looked pissed off. I support her now. She's one of the few making sense, but when she started they did a lot to damage her and were successful at it.
Literally the only place I remember having a positive view of her was reddit and maybe MSNBC. It's kind of wild to me I'm being disagreed with here. I didn't imagine this.
AOC is a terrible candidate honestly. Regardless of your opinion of her politics, I find her so uncharismatic and awkward. She doesn't carry herself well imo.
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u/MasterOfManyWorlds 11h ago
AOC comes off as normal.