They will learn to do everything they can to stop the implementation of ranked choice primaries.
And primaries overall.
this post was submitted on 26 Jun 2025
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I would rather progressives become emboldened, run for far more Dem positions, and do a reverse Tea Party to drag the party back towards sanity
That's kinda what happened in 2016, but DNC resistance and progressives' terminal lack of spine (and billionaire money) killed it.
Citizens United is the root of all evil, yeah.
Not likely, it doesn't serve their primary corporate interests
The Democrat establishment? No.
Democrat voters? Fucking hopefully, and the lesson they hopefully fucking learn is vote in the primaries
Higher level democrats? No, not at all.
In fact, many of them will see this as a bad thing, and will double down on their establishment ways.
No, so that's why we need to replace the Democrats by showing up for primaries.
Forgive me such a silly question, but is it possible to... you know... decome a member of the dems and have your say?
Who wants to join a party that is only good at selling weapons to murder Palestinians?
I feel like I've blocked you a million times.
Centrism: being angry at how frequently you take steps to ignore people to your left.
I'm not angry.
There's only a few users i block.
I'm not a centrist.
If you say so.
It's a game of Would You Rather and your answer is "screw you guys, I'm going home."
You can join the Democratic Party and push them towards your beliefs or you can keep pushing them further right, but either way it's only D or R for the foreseeable future.
That's what Bernie's people did in 2016. Did you forget? They went through a whole process of trying to win numerous spots and make changes within the Democratic party structure. They got ratfucked by the DNC who shut them down. The DNC went to court and argued the party could ignore their own internal rules to prevent progressives from winning committee spots and taking over the party.
Sounds like a great argument for getting more progressives deeply placed in the party. Too much of the power structure in the DNC is old libs, only way to change that is to get more of us in place.
Would Bernie be more effective if he was formally a member of the Democratic Party, like how AOC is? I'm not sure, but it is telling he ran in the Dem primary instead of as an independent.
Centrists know this. As he said, it's a game to them. Their objective is to move the party to the right so they get what they want. Which is genocide.
🤣 No, They just learned to double down on rhetoric.
Whaaaa why do people want to eat and afford rent so bad, why can't they just ask daddy for money"
LOL! Good one.
Will the democrats learn
Will pigs fly?
Nope. They'll run all their stupid milquetoast "centrist" candidates like usual.
No, but we will.