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This makes an uncomfortable amount of sense.
America really needs an idealistic, grassroots, left-wing party that truly speaks for the people. Much like the NDP here in Canada.
Unfortunately, America uses First Past The Post, which invariably consolidates the options into two parties due to the spoiler effect. I don’t feel like explaining how the spoiler effect works right now, so instead I’ll recommend CGP Grey’s early videos on First Past The Post.
I heartily recommend campaigning for election reform. In addition to switching to ranked choice or approval voting (both are better than FPTP), abolishing the Electoral College would go a long way to actually implementing the American promise of democracy.
In the meantime, as Zohran Mamdani just proved, we have options. Most Democrat party members ARE idealists. Money speaks loudly, and that’s the strategy the DNC uses to control the party. But truth and passion can speak louder, if hope and cynicism are applied in a healthy balance. Help AOC and Bernie with their plan; they know what they’re doing, but this is a team effort. It doesn’t work without a team.
And I’ve come up with an unconventional plan, Myself. It has a very, very low chance of success. But I believe it’s the best ending. Here it is:
If we foil the Democrats’ plan to lose, if we fuck with that plan hard enough, then it may one day be possible to raise the Democratic vote consistently over double the Republican vote. Once that happens, the spoiler effect ceases relevance. The Democrats can safely have a schism without the Republicans winning. At that point, the progressives in the party would split into a new party, potentially bigger in size than the entire Republican party. There would be two new parties in American politics: the DNC old guard, and a genuinely leftist party. Like I said, it’s an unlikely dream, but it’s the best hope short of a communist revolution.
Which we should definitely also work towards, the other 364 days of the year.
Many people who identify as left wing, but who did not voice a position to the electors in the 2024 election, adopted a strategy of playing chicken with fascism. If we can get enough public outcry against Kamala, they said, then the Democrats will just have to replace her with a lefty like AOC.
Kek
The Democrats’ Secret Plan to Destroy Democracy
How will they destroy something that has never existed?
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This is a thing I’ve been saying about the Democrats for eight years now, though from a somewhat different angle.
They’re not only okay with losing elections - in ways they actually prefer it.
The worst case scenario for Democrats, and if you were paying attention, you saw it when it happened, is controlling both the presidency and a congessional majority. Then they have to go to ludicrous extremes to fail to accomplish anything, including still claiming to be obstructed by the Republican minority, even after spending the last however many years claiming that they couldn’t do anything to stop the Republicsns bevause they were the minority.
Somehow, the Republicans can stop the Demicrats no matter who has the majority, while the Democrats cannot stop the Republicans, again no matter who has the majority.
But the key, in my opinion, and not really addressed in this otherwise excellent essay, is that the one and only thing that the Democratic party hierarchy really cares about is keeping the soft money flowing. That’s it - nothing else matters to them.
And the way they keep the soft money flowing is to provide the appearance of opposition - to play the role of faces against the Republicsn heels - but to never quite manage to stop them, and certainly to never actually accomplish anything even vaguely leftist.
That provides a dual benefit for them - they keep their corporate sponsors happy by never doing anything that might actually lead to smaller executive pay packages or having to actually pay taxes and they can fundraise among the rank and file with their standard “Look at the horrible things the Republicans are doing and that’s why we need your support!”
And it all hinges on not successfully opposing the Republicans, and far and away the easiest way to not successfully oppose the Republicans is to lose key elections.
Well it would be way harder for them to lose elections on purpose if you voted for them!
And clearly that’s the best use of your time and attention.
