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Democrats: "that's ok, we're not going back because we never left and never intend to! Nothing Will Fundamentally Change is our motto!"
You're getting downvoted because that got fixed 6 months ago btw...
A year ago everyone would be upvoting, but you're just streets behind these days.
The leadership of the DNC can change, but that isn't going to do fuck-all for the people already in office or even those running if they are still corpo shills.
The DNC leadership change is a nice start but they don't set policy decisions or "whip votes" as far as I'm aware.
They're not the party...
And the ones in leadership positions got there because the DNC would fuck over anyone that went against them.
That's no longer the case. They don't have the party behind them anymore, they'll struggle to stay in office let alone keep their leadership positions.
It's not just happening with the DNC, it's happening at state levels all over. Even in red and purple states, the DNC is funnelling all that money stolen from state parties under the Victory Fund back to the state parties so we can contest every race.
The only reason Republicans have a chance at the House, is we just gave up on any race that we couldn't 100% win
I'll believe it when I see it in action
https://democrats.org/news/dnc-and-asdc-announces-organize-everywhere-win-anywhere-strategy-largest-ever-monthly-dnc-investment-into-democratic-state-and-territory-parties/
But more importantly than that, the end of the victory fund.
I meant I'll believe it when I see them putting forward meaningfully progressive candidates in polls.
I don't think you understand what the DNC is supposed to do then...
Fair point. I'm not American, and haven't delved deeply into it. They do seem to have been implicated in ousting a few progressive candidates in the past, but yeah, I may be misunderstanding.
It seems like such an obvious thing to do, it's crazy they weren't doing this previously. All we can do is hope for the best now
It wasn't just that they weren't doing it before.
The Victory Fund allowed a donor to "bundle" donations to like, the Alabama Dem party and a bunch of others, but it would go straight to the DNC to be used for the presidential campaign.
In 2016 when it started we later found out as little as 1% of the state money went to the actual state, and often so late that it didn't matter. That's not even getting into how they've been using that in presidential primaries too.
You remember the noise about "Biden's war chest"? That's what it was, money stolen from small state parties where it was desperately needed.
It's literally the only reasona Republican House is possible.
People need to realize how bad the last DNC was to appreciate how big of an improvement a non biased DNC is.
Progressives dont need help in a primary, just a fair shot. And we're gonna get it. Which is why billionaire owned media won't talk about it and try make it seem like Pete, Cumo, and Jeffries are the only ones doing anything, even they they haven't and won't do shit.
People need to pay attention to this shit.