• finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    I’ve been asking this for days and have not gotten a clear answer in what way is the DNC fighting the candidate put forth to the generals by the DNC?

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        11 hours ago

        You don’t get into the DNC primary via petition, my guy. You ask the DNC to join and they give out invitations to the ones who can run on their ticket.

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          10 hours ago

          They didn’t expect him to win. He was the olive branch to people on the left in order to say “see? We had someone with more pro-social ideas and he wasn’t popular enough. Let’s try shifting further to the right and see if we get more votes that way.”

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            7 hours ago

            We had Jeremy Corbyn do that over here. Absolutely romped into the Labour leadership.

            Whereupon he was demonised and demolished by the press, ably assisted by the centrists in the party who think that actually giving a shit about the people is far too hardline lefty. Which then gifted us another five years of Tory cunts in power, which The Centrists decried despite the fact that THEY FUCKING PUT THEM THERE.

            Cunts.

            Anyway, now we have pretty much the most centre right “leftwing” government we’ve ever had. And that includes the Blair years.

            All of which is to say: I hope your man wins, but he’ll almost certainly be kneecapped by the Democrats because he runs the risk of costing them money.

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            10 hours ago

            They expect every candidate to have a chance of winning when they hold primaries. Bernie came somewhat close to beating HRC in 2016, if he had like 4 million more votes they wouldn’t have been able to do anything about stopping him from running the entire nation, unlikely that they would try.

            DNC is the left party, the party of progress, now and decades prior.

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              6 hours ago

              The DNC is very much a conservative party. To claim the democratic party to be left leaning is a complete lack of awareness or it’s propaganda.

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              9 hours ago

              Bernie came somewhat close to beating HRC in 2016

              Bernie came close while simultaneously getting sandbagged at every opportunity by the DNC. If he’d gotten the same kind of attention as Hillary, there’s a very good chance he would have won.

              DNC is only the party of progress because there isn’t another viable party that’s better at it. It’s up to us to push them to the left, because they’re really bad at doing it themselves. NYC proved that it’s possible; I only hope it mobilizes the rest of the left-leaning populace to take similar action. Vote blue and do what you can locally to enact change.

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                I repeat, he did lose by over 3 Million Votes. Supposed, uncoroborated, sandbagging aside, Hillary was the more popular candidate.

                You’re not pushing the party left by telling everyone they’re an unviable bunch of corporate shills, you’re just convincing people not to vote for them and letting Republicans win.

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              7 hours ago

              DNC is the left party, the party of progress, now and decades prior.

              The party that has been running on “Everything is fine, status quo is great, we won’t change anything” is the party of progress?

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                6 hours ago

                The party who taxes and audits the rich, the party who expands medical coverages, the party who removed money from politics until the conservative SCOTUS overturned the law with Citizens United decision, and the Party who hasn’t had more than 50 senators in the past 10 years while everything has gone to shit.

                If we want change we should elect the DNC, and even more importantly remove every single Republican.

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                  5 hours ago

                  the Party who hasn’t had more than 50 senators in the past 10

                  If we want change we should elect the DNC

                  Sounds like the DNC needs to do things that are actually popular with voters.

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      12 hours ago

      The democratic governor, for instance, has said she won’t fund Mamdani’s programs.