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[Opinion] Democrats Will Keep Losing Until They Cut Ties With Billionaires and Corporations (zeteo.com)

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Progressive movement leader Alexandra Rojas writes for Zeteo that those in charge of the Democrats’ 2024 campaign should have been fired a long time ago.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Sadly, there's a lot of people with a lot of power in the party who'd rather lose than do that.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

Seems pretty obvious to me that the only reason most high-ranking politicians climbed up through the political system in the first place, regardless of the party, was the goal of establishing self-serving ties with billionaires and corporations. They're not here to represent us, they're here to get paid a whole bunch of money to do the job of telling us they're here to represent us.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Well, I guess they'll keep getting what they want then. But that's also unsustainable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Plus those who do try usually get pushed out