"We successfully failed to win. The AIPAC money must keep coming in."
It rhymes and they're slime.
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..bb-bUt look at everything but Democrats did win. Donor money, trips to Israel, lobbying dinners, suspiciously-accurate stock market moves... You need to re-shape your mindset and focus on the incremental gains!
TLDR: Because they don't give a fuck about you or me or anyone who isn't a donor.
Repubs want to hurt you. Dems don't care that you exist. We need a third party (as if that's a new idea).
Quick: who's got Mayor Mamdani on their team? THOSE guys seem to car about people.
the Working Families Party is the best hope USAmericans have. Unlike the Green Party, they're focused on building up their party from the small positions, and proving themselves that way.
Quick: who’s got Mayor Mamdani on their team? THOSE guys seem to car about people.
The political equivalent of having a black friend just dropped.
So far the only reason that they would want to keep this a secret is AIPAC.
Just reading the headline reminded me of how disgusting the amount of money in US politics is. It's probably spreading to other places too.
Im beginning to think there is a parallel of hyper concentrated wealth to the physics of a fusion detonation.
If it gets too dense, BOOM.
The Democratic Party isn’t there to “win”, it’s there to act as a honeypot to attract and neutralize progressives, and to make sure that the “Overton Window” of American politics never moves left.
Many Americans are aware of the Ratchet Effect but they’re reluctant to acknowledge that it’s deliberate and coordinated, instead asserting that it’s a function of the “donor class” in the Democratic Party having a different perspective on how political priorities should be assigned.
We all know the reason. It condemns their own shit neoliberal policies and posturing, and they want to continue to pretend that their problem is how they sell the snake oil rather the fact that nobody wants fucking snake oil.
I am at least partially heartened to see the people on here knowing what the fuck is up. I mean six comments deep I agree with everyone, the democratic party is controlled opposition, long since captured by the oligarchy.
Fighting under their Banner, without seizing control of the party, is doomed to fail, and would not produce satisfactory results even if it won.
We could take the party from them. Our policies, our ideas, are actually popular we just lack leadership and organization.
"Her “signaling” is evidently an effort to disassociate herself from the taint of Martin’s unpopular decision without openly opposing it"
Another principled, very clear, stand from Kamala where she is not trying to please both parties by tying her statements into word salads.
Why? Because their candidates were a couple of corporate stooges who licked Israel's butthole.
Neither one showed any humanity or concern for the working class.
Meanwhile trump convinced the common man he was on their side and would lower prices. It was all a lie of course. But the democrats couldn't even be bothered to do that.
The whole campaign was "we aren't trump". But offered not solutions at all, just tired platitudes and insincere posturing from a women who had all the empathy of a cold ham.
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