Jessica Corbett
Nov 06, 2024
“While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change,” said the Vermont Independent. “And they’re right.”
Give us the names of the people responsible so they can be barred from the community. This is too many times the DNC has followed the appeasement strategy by crossing the aisle and trying to sway R voters. Their ideas don’t work. They cost us our rights and freedom each time they are wrong so they can’t afford to be so consistently out of touch with what works.
It is the entire national Democratic party and their gigantic horde of consultants.
People here don’t seem to understand that Trump winning to them, is a preferable outcome to someone like Bernie Sanders ever holding power.
I’m not saying they want Trump in office, I’m saying that Trump in office means they retain their jobs and influence. Both of which are predicated upon keeping their voters trained on the idea that campaigns are only about marketing, and politics is about anything other than how it can directly improve their material conditions.
Imagine a Democratic politician broke through the existing power structures and enacted something like Medicare for All. That is is the biggest threat to their power: an actual FDR Democrat. Someone who takes money and power from the donor class, and uses it to directly improve the material conditions for the rest of us.
Barred from what community? They are power brokers. They control who gets barred, not the other way around.
I have thought for years that we needed more political parties in this countries, but the current system makes it almost impossible for them to hold any real power.
What’s needed is a takeover of the Democratic party. The Republicans did it, for evil. We could do it for good.
The practical problem is that Citizens United gives the super-rich most of the power. It would take a very large-scale populist movement to push them out and take back control.
So New York kind of has something like this. They can run candidates under multiple parties. For example, they run the DNC candidates under the Democrats, but also under the Working Families Party, and both will count as a vote for them. My family members in New York always vote for the Dem candidate under the WFP because it helps them make quorum and also signals that they prefer the WFP endorsement over the DNC.
Here’s an article with a sample ballot from a district of NY. You can see Kamala and Trump under Dem/Repub, but also under WFP/Cons as candidates. Same with the senate.
The national numbers never show the breakdowns of which bubbles were actually filled in, just the totals. But I’m always curious as to what the ballot breakdown actually is.
I did not know about that. Time for me to do some reading. Thanks for your post!
Also blame all the fucking money in US politics from Israel
We need more Bernie’s.
We need the Weekend at Bernie’s party.
