• M68040 [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    Fucking Harry S. Truman got why this shit was a problem.

    I’ve seen it happen time after time. When the Democratic candidate allows himself to be put on the defensive and starts apologizing for the New Deal and the fair Deal, and says he really doesn’t believe in them, he is sure to lose. The people don’t want a phony Democrat. If it’s a choice between a genuine Republican, and a Republican in Democratic clothing, the people will choose the genuine article, every time; that is, they will take a Republican before they will a phony Democrat, and I don’t want any phony Democratic candidates in this campaign. (May 17, 1952)

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      2 months ago

      The republicans ran a “she’s for they/them and not you” ad which convinced Democratic strategists that they cared too much about the queers. Also you’re evil and hate queers if you don’t vote for them.

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    acknowledging public perception of the party as “weak and woke” needs to change. She is urging Democrats to “fucking retake the flag” with appeals to voters’ sense of patriotism, to adopt “the goddamn Alpha energy” of Detroit Lions coach Dan Campbell and to embrace an “airing out” of potential 2028 presidential candidates in a broadly contested primary.

    Slotkin plans to deliver another speech — which is set to focus on “killing sacred cows” — sometime next month.

    “I don’t think we need to hide the fact that Trump is flooding the zone and making us look 12 different ways at the same time,” Slotkin said. “But again, because I come from the national security background, there’s no end to fighting unless you’re dead.”

    We’re trapped in the belly of this horrible machine

  • micnd90 [he/him,any]@hexbear.net
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    Remember that if you are a real political party, your end goal is to enact policy. Winning election is just one mean (amongst many) to achieve that.

    Abandoning policy to win election means that you are an unserious political party, some would say a lifestyle brand

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      The Uniparty have the same core policy as ever.
      Endless war and regime changes, unconditional support for Pissrael genociders, banks, multinationals and oligarchs.

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      2 months ago

      Literal CIA analyst. Bush-era psycho. Did three ‘active’ tours as CIA during that time & got shitcanned after the goldrush, ran a failed consultancy for less than two years & got picked up by the Dems as an asset.

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    Good, it’s blatantly clear the US “left” has to be forced to go third party, cause they sure as shit aren’t taking that critical responsibility on themselves

    Maybe some hard CIA medicine will wake the berniecrats up, tho I doubt it considering a genocide couldn’t do the trick

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      Going third-party in FPTP elections with such polarized parties as today only splits the vote. Without major election reform it’s just a plain old bad idea.

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        The point is not to win national elections outright, but to solidify a base and create a nation-spanning organization capable of challenging the two parties first in local, state and then finally national elections

        That requires electoral sacrifices in the meantime, sacrifices that at this point in time should be easy to make considering dems aren’t winning elections anyway