• _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 days ago

    They are the establishment. Why would they ever change? They would rather Trump win, than their easy paychecks be disrupted. You are never going to get a democrat to care about people.

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      8 days ago

      It would be easier for progressives to take over the DNC and state Dems than to form an entirely new party and make it viable.

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        8 days ago

        If that’s the case, then it’s never going to happen, because the democrats are never going to let it happen, so you’re basically saying stop voting or caring about anything and just lay down and die.

        There is no future for the democratic party. This election convinced me that they are never going to care about anyone but their donors, and next election I won’t be voting for them. I’ve voted for the candidate they shoved down our throats to defeat Trump three times now, and most of the time they’ve fucked it up. No more “lesser evil” crap. I’m not voting for evil again, period.

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          8 days ago

          No more “lesser evil” crap. I’m not voting for evil again, period.

          The strategy you are describing makes minorities the cost of doing business. Instead of attempting to achieve moral victory over Democrats consider voting for Democrats in elections to leverage power for the people Republicans want to hurt and kill.

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            7 days ago

            Choosing current republicans and current democrats is choosing the weapon to be used against you and especially against minorities. Both parties choose to uphold a system that relies on “winners” and “losers” to exist, which makes both of them willing to use minorities as a cost of maintaining profits and systemic power. Why is it acceptable to think it is better to choose the less lethal weapon instead of doing literally anything else to try to prevent all this systemic violence?

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            5 days ago

            No, this is called a healthy boundary… And if they stick to it, all the better… It shouldn’t even be a difficult boundary for Dems to respect… Just stop running evil candidates… If the Dems can’t adopt that strategy, well it’s their strategy that will cost minorities, and they should be shamed and stripped of power for it.

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          5 days ago

          The current Dem leadership can’t really do much to stop it if they get voted out by the party members… And no, I’m basically saying the opposite of that… Vote smart, vote for leadership change in the party so the party is run by people like Bernie not Clinton