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[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 101 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Between the House and the Senate, there are currently 258 Democrats in Congress.

And 224 of them are fascist collaborators.

[–] endeavor@sopuli.xyz 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Dems just making sure the 2 party system dies forever.

[–] ChaoticCookie@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 months ago

When I said I didn’t want a 2 party system, this isn’t what I meant!

[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago

Or maybe more accurately, the illusion of a two-party system.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 70 points 2 months ago (51 children)

The Democratic party is a party of cowards.

[–] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 15 points 2 months ago

Most politicians are cowards.

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[–] Fingolfinz@lemmy.world 59 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The dnc is controlled opposition. We have to get actual progressives elected at local levels and it’ll be a fucking process but it’ll eventually make the party actual opposition

[–] WarlordSdocy@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We've been doing pretty good at that in Oregon in the Portland area especially, we got a fair few DSA people elected to the city council and to the state house in the last election. Although I doubt that will ever really convert the Dems into an actual progressive party, it's a lot more likely that the Democratic party dies with the rise of new progressive candidates and new progressive parties winning.

[–] Fingolfinz@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That’s awesome, it’s been like that in St. Louis too at the local level but can’t break past that. If a new party is what’s really needed though, then ideas need to get agreed and things need to become more centralized, I’m seeing like 50 different progressive parties lately and that fragmentation will get us no where

[–] WarlordSdocy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I mean at least from what I've seen of it so far DSA is a fairly good choice, as I think for a party to be really progressive and represent the working class people it needs to be run democratically with party members actually having a voice and vote on what the party does. Which so far most other parties tend to follow the normal party strategy with party leadership and candidates making choices about what policies they want which just seems like a path to another Democratic party down the line that is disconnected from the people.

I think if anything though fragmentation isn't really the problem with breaking past local wins. I think it's more that the higher up you get the more corporate money starts to have a large impact and the harder and more support you need to run a grass roots campaign. The higher up you get the harder it becomes to reach out directly to voters through door knocking and events and the more advertisements and mass media campaigns tend to have influence which is where corporate money thrives. I think the way around this outside of campaign finance reform is building up that local support so you can have those local candidates that have already done outreach directly with their local constituents provide support and endorsement towards electing people at higher levels.

[–] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

You'll have to throw Chuck Schumer into a retirement home (or a volcano) first.

[–] Fingolfinz@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

It’s seeming like it, fucking ghouls run the dnc

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

And until we get people willing to talk about who is controlling the dnc and why (the zionist) then the dnc will remain trapped in other peoples pockets fwith no conceivable end in sight.

[–] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 49 points 2 months ago

"No way to prevent this, say the Democrats who are actively collaborating with the fascists"

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

now it's on the voters to make some democrats disappear.

[–] amorpheus@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] MisterOwl@lemmy.world 39 points 2 months ago

Just shows how cowardly the Democrats are now. Most of them were afraid to sign a piece of paper that means literally nothing.

[–] derryt@lemm.ee 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Sigh, I see I can't trust my senator to do the right thing anymore. Edit: meaning he didn't sign it. POS trader.

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[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 10 points 2 months ago (3 children)

They didn't used to be this way, for some reason under Biden they went super anti-immigration

[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

What a load of shit. What time period are you referring to when you believed Democrats were pro-immigrant? Let’s factcheck that shit.

Even Obama deported way more people than Trump, built the immigrant cages, and vastly expanded ICE. Clinton was equally anti-immigrant.

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[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

"For some reason."

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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 7 points 2 months ago

sad as fuck.

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

My state included 9.

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