this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2025
42 points (93.8% liked)

Progressive Politics

2873 readers
1827 users here now

Welcome to Progressive Politics! A place for news updates and political discussion from a left perspective. Conservatives and centrists are welcome just try and keep it civil :)

(Sidebar still a work in progress post recommendations if you have them such as reading lists)

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

This is why we need a real worker's party, because this party is dead, and refuses to change.

A Reuters/Ipsos poll released Thursday found that 62 percent of Democrats said “party leaders should be replaced,” 49 percent of Democratic respondents said they were “unsatisfied with current leadership” and 41 percent said they disagreed with the sentiment that they were unsatisfied with leadership.

Source

all 43 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] sturger@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

We’re leaderless, we’re messageless, we’re agendaless.

Don’t worry. If there’s another election, their donors will buy them all of those things.

They don’t have those things now because their donors neither want nor need them. Why spend money on a leader to push the Democratic party to the right when the party in power is already pushing everything to the right?

The radical right isn’t installing fascism. The donors are paying both parties to install fascism. Why pay off an entire congress when it’s much easier to pay off a single dictator?

[–] TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Well, neoliberalism is dead. Yet, the Democrats continue to cling to its bloated corpse. Many Democrats simply refuse to let go of the paradigm that took control of American politics in the 80s and 90s.

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Neoliberalism isn't dead, it just changed into fascism. A caterpillar doesn't die, it becomes a butterfly.

[–] elevenbones@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Didn't know caterpillars can turn into moths, but that makes sense.

[–] Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Or it gets infected by a parasite that lays its eggs to eat it alive from the inside.

[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

We don’t simply need a workers party. We need a workers revolution. We need to dismantle capitalism.

[–] kandoh@reddthat.com -5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Good luck, almost all workers see themselves as consumers firstly.

[–] quetzaldilla@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

Oh, I guess let's just throw up our hands and resign ourselves instead of leading by example.

Bro, I refuse to buy anything other than basic-ass groceries and used/local products.

I also started a borrowing circle in my neighborhood where people ask to borrow stuff rather than buying.

Every. Effort. Matters.

No matter how small.

What have YOU done to help?

[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Then what are you doing here? If your goal is not to demand these rights, what are you doing in this space?

[–] kandoh@reddthat.com -4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

how dare you point out the obstacles and harsh my vibe, bro

[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Aww, poor baby. Wanted to be coddled and praised for your ignorance? Is that why you invade spaces where you’re not wanted?

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

“I mean, overall, when you lose, the party that loses gets, as you know — as I know, personally — attacked and criticized, and they’re the stupidest people that ever walked the planet, and ‘How could you have missed that?’ That’s what’s happening with the Democrats right now. They’re getting attacked from all sides.”

Will this theoretical real worker’s party be up and national in time for midterms?

[–] rodneyck@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Too many still thinking they can change the corporate focused party.

What's the big dem messaging for fixing anything for midterms? 🦗🦗🦗