If your reaction to this is outrage, you're politically juvenile. It's early 2026, this is exactly the time to be doing this kind of politics. If you already now signal to the Democratic Party establishment your capitulation, why should your concerns even be taken into account. Piker is putting the gun on the table at exactly the right time. Grow up.
this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2026
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I forgot that this is still a Lemmy.world community where somehow it is never the right time to try and get the Democratic party to try or care to earn their votes.
Always to close to an election or to far from one, or not worth it to make them fear for their win instead of blind support.
We can't try something new because what we have been trying doesnt work and we have to make it work before we are allowed to change strategy.
What an insane take.
It is interesting that Democrats are already in Blue MAGA mode while we are still 2 years away from the election. Last time they pretended to care about Dems running a non corrupt candidate up until 6 months before the election.
Is it? They don't like anyone questioning their rich assholes. Never have and they never will. To use your 1st amendment rights means you're actually a Russian troll, or a Tankie, or whatever their favorite talking head told them to not question but accept blindly.
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What is going on? Do you want change? Well establishment dems showed thier belly and don't care to fight trump. Hasan is right. A third party socialist "im gonna prosecute the previous administration" candidate. Is infinitly better than the jackass establishment democrats we have now
O you wanna vote for Gavin Newsome because he "owned trump on twitter" give me a fucking break.
wanna vote for Gavin Newsome because he "owned trump on twitter" give me a fucking break.
Not even him, his pr people
The president is, and is supposed to be, just a dude – not a supreme leader. I get that it might not be politically expedient to sell them like that, but at least realize that whatever candidate wins – even an establishment favorite – they are subject to pressure from within their party.
So, join the party and push from within, or your union and push from there – or both.
He's right. Establishment dems have shown themselves repeatedly to not be capable of opposing a fascist agenda, and recent elections have shown that its not even the safe bet anymore. An establishment candidate is just doom at this point, might as well vote 3rd party and have a tiny shot
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I'm not opposed to it, but unless he (or others) can get a mass movement behind a third party candidate and we still don't have rank choice, I'm probably voting for the ticket that is least likely to give Republicans power.
Those things will not happen so the only leverage you have against Democrats is demanding them to fulfill your demands in exchange for your vote.
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