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Why support the party when they don't support their nominee? I mean, I know ultimately why it's a must, but there must be punishment for the establishment.
The party is supporting him for fucks sake...
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/dnc-chair-on-the-path-to-winning-back-voters-and-lessons-democrats-can-learn-from-mamdani
Stop treating random shitty neoliberals as "the party" when their wing was just kicked out of the DNC.
The people you want to "punish" were voted out of leadership in the last DNC election, by the voting members of the DNC....
8 months ago I'd be right beside you saying the same thing, but that already happened 6 months ago.
Like, how do so many people pretend to care about this stuff but just don't have any fucking idea what's happening?
Edit:
I know I sounded frustrated, but there's no reason to pile down votes on OP. My frustration is really with MSM media ignoring it.
Because of that, lots of people are unaware of the recent (and seriously historic, this has been 50 years in the making, 80 depending on when you start the clock).
And the wealthy will fight tooth and nail to prevent the people from solidifying their grasp on the Dem party again. Lying and misrepresenting events via the news organization they have all bought up isn't the worse they're going to do, if we can't handle this we won't be able to handle the real fuckery in the next presidential primary. The DNC will stay fair, so the wealthy will do everything they can to depress Dem primary turnout.
Now more than ever people need to take initiative and pay attention.
When someone isn't, and they get called out; upvote that shit so others see it.
It's good to see that Ken Martin isn't attacking Mamdani, but Schumer and Jefferies are refusing to endorse him. You can't say the party is supporting Mamdani when its two highest ranking members, both representatives from Mamdani's city, are withholding their endorsement.
I'm really struggling to understand why you believe this. The party just kicked Davie Hogg out of leadership for threatening entrenched power, and Ken Martin isn't exactly fighting the neoliberal wing of the party either. One of the main differences between him and Ben Wikler, his main opponent for DNC chair, is that Martin wanted to continue taking money from, "good billionaires." Even in the interview you shared, Martin goes out of his way to defend centrist and even conservative Democrats:
The neoliberal wing of the party is on the back foot right now, but they haven't been kicked out. Many of them are trying to stage a comeback with Project 2029 and the Abundance Agenda, and plenty voting DNC members will support them. The fight for control of the party isn't over; it's barely started.