• Deadend [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    Her attempts to build a slightly left of center bloc in the DNC were blocked.. by the DNC changing the rules on running.

    This is the best we can hope for - the most mildest of critics, which likely received huge yelling in return.

    America is basically without hope.

    • jack [he/him, comrade/them]
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      8 months ago

      if you thought any possible hope for America ever rested with the dems, you're looking in the wrong place

    • mar_k [he/him]
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      8 months ago

      Let's be real socdems are center to center-right on the wider political spectrum

      • Alaskaball [comrade/them]
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        8 months ago

        They objectively are right-wingers. They do not want to change the economic system of Capitalism. They simply want to bandage it, cover its gruesome face with an emoji smiley face mask, and keep it going for another millennium.

    • AOCapitulator [they/them, she/her]
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      8 months ago

      this is like saying to your sick child "well your arm is going to rot and fall off, this is the best we can hope for while treating your illness with homeopathy"

      Electoralism was never going to help.

    • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]
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      8 months ago

      Her attempts to build a slightly left of center bloc in the DNC were blocked

      I don't think she or the rest of them ever tried to do that at all. "The Squad" never acted like a coherent voting bloc. They even made public excuses for one or the other not voting with the rest of them. They had no cohesion, discipline, or real vision, hust a bunch of useless liberals.

      I had hopes about them, and the concept of taking over the dem party at one time, but its less that they were blocked than that they never really tried to be a voting bloc aside from they're marketing and fundraising

      • Deadend [he/him]
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        8 months ago

        They got very slight “maybe we can run on progressive things, as look how well it’s going for us” and the party went ballistic, as The Squad was a bigger threat than Trump and fascists.

        Completely right, as if the Dems ran on policies or ideas other than “not trump” they may make the Dems upset the funding class.