This makes me wonder where else you could donate. You could send money directly to specific candidates, but I wonder if someone trusted like AOC could run a collection and distribute the money to true progressives to replace the DNC, especially for primaries. After all, money is how the DNC remains relevant and hard to replace. It's also the main way they ensure their picks win primaries.
this post was submitted on 28 Jul 2025
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I would follow Bernie Sanders into hell, if he said it was necessary. He would be the ideal choice to anchor a new progressive party if he were just a little younger. Not that he couldn't do it now, it's just likely to turn some people off. AOC would be my second choice.
Getting anything resembling a new party off the ground seems nearly impossible under the US system. You may be right that our best option, at least for now, is an informal organization of progressive candidates and supporters.
I think the question is if we can either reach a competitive level of fundraising, which seems unlikely, or find ways to make the money a less overwhelming factor. There have been enough races that money failed to buy to show that it is possible. It just isn't very common. For something like this to work, we will need almost everyone to become an activist.
Totally sensible. Why do they even need donations given they are really the only choice now.
David Hogg is a tool of the oligarchs to disarm the working class. That doesn't make the DNC any better, but that argument fell really flat with me.
The way they dealt with him was a demonstration of their corruption, whatever you think of his policy positions.