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[–] LovingHippieCat@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Democrats who throw marginalized voices under the bus deserved to be primaried and kicked the fuck out of office. They're supposed to be supporting us, not giving an inch. And if the people currently in office won't do that then the thing to do is primary them, not just abandon the Democratic party.

Edit: republican voters put the fear of the primary in their elected representatives if they didn't/don't support all of Trump's policies without question. We should be putting the fear of the primary in the Democrat representatives too.

[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm sorry but just going for the marginalised groups is not going to win them the next election. They have to be fighting for the working people which, includes marginalized groups, because just playing violin strings about the hardships of small sects of society is not going to bare any fruit from others who aren't in that cohort more worried about keeping themselves fed and a roof over their heads.

But of course, the large financial backers of the DNC wouldn't go for that. That's why they so aggressively pushed "support" for these groups in the first place, using their sorrows and plight as political shields.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Jettisoning marginalized groups isn't gonna help them either, but they like doing it.

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

They wont. Slotkin giving the rebuttal to Trumps speech on the 4th was a middle finger to dem voters from the DNC. Shes a centrist/right wing zionist. Thats the DNC's promise for the future. A heartfelt, "Go fuck yourself, you'll vote for whatever we want you to or you'll get the Trump hose again."

[–] Zanudous@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

Dems are cooked unless they get rid of everyone currently running the party.

[–] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 7 points 3 months ago

But that MIGHT Offend the Republicans who would NEVER vote for them?

[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Democrats need to pull their head out of their asses and accept we see them as a watered down republican. The Wealthy assholes running the democratic party have continuously ignored the people who used to support them. The less intelligent have latched on to the republicans for some reason. The rest of us feel a ever increasing apathy toward both sides of our one party system.

If you think there is much difference between the current democrats and republicans then you need to watch what they do not what they say.

We don't need a second party as much as we need a third and a fourth.