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[–] greenskye@lemmy.zip 86 points 5 days ago (2 children)

The DNC and the RNC basically want the same thing, except the Democratic Party is much more subtle about it.

The old RNC. The new Republicans have taken over and actually do want all the fascist hateful stuff. The old guard courted crazies and those crazies took over.

[–] cobysev@lemmy.world 34 points 5 days ago (1 children)

True. The more right the DNC leans, the more extremist right the RNC leans, to differentiates themselves from Democrats.

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Which, fuckin' honestly, should be an object lesson for anyone who wants to advance progressive politics in this country. Engage in primary after primary and take over the party from within until the old guard are appalled at what it has become, except do that with good goals instead of horrifying ones.

And remember that by the time the election itself is at hand, it's too late to make meaningful change in the party platform. The primaries are what actually matter when it comes to changing course. Everything after that, it's just a binary choice between which of the major candidates you actually want in power.

[–] greenskye@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago

I mean the difference is that the old RNC deliberately invited the vampire inside, thinking they could control them. They were supposed to be useful idiots to get extra votes. They were wrong and lost control.

The DNC recognizes that if they ever actually gave the people power they'd never get it back. So they're much more diligent about denying any possible progressive advancement, up to and including damaging their own party to do so.