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Bad faith, I see
I've actually lived under this brand of "socialism". Have you?
(I think I've got the answer to this question)
At this point, we do need to burn the Democratic Party to ashes. We need to put it out of its misery and let It needs to go the way of the Whigs. Some things simply can't be repaired.
There have been many countries caught in this same authoritarian trap that we're in now. And one common lesson is that you need to give up on the captured opposition if you want to have any hope of actually ending the authoritarian regime.
Democrats are going to lose again in 2028. They're going to yet again nominate a corporate centrist and yet again try the failed policy of appealing to Republican suburbanites. That's all these clowns know.
How many times do they have to lose elections before we give up on these fucking losers? They lost in 2016, they lost in 2024, and they would have lost in 2020 if it weren't for Covid.
The only reason to vote for Democrats is a pragmatic approach - they're better than the alternative. But they don't actually have that pragmatic argument anymore, and they haven't for a long time. They've been completely unelectable for a decade at this point.
They're a party of losers. Just absolute, irredeemable losers. They are fundamentally incapable of winning a presidential election now. They just don't have it in them.
We need to let them go. It's ritual self-mutilation to keep trying to prop up the dead corpse that is the Democratic party. It's dead man. It's time to let it go.
nice, even more self-mutilation talk. lets remove the opposition without offering a viable alternative. that'll show it to these fascist pigs...
(i've lived this shit through too. it hasn't panned out yet either)
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Grassroots campaigns for small local government positions building gradual power for progressives to replace them. Do your part.
ok, you win! this is by far the smartest response. everyone else is like lets tear shit down without an actual plan of replacing at the same scale.
I'm sure this will fix the frustration of people who already live in deeply progressive states.
I live in Oakland, California. Our recently-former mayor was just charged with corruption for taking bribes to get into office by promising contracts to moneyed interests. I'd sure like a Bernie type of person in charge of my city.
Is CA deeply progressive? Sorta; it's viewed that way by a lot of people. Our AG is one of the ones fighting the Trump admin. Are we fucked regardless? I'd say yes. Your comment displays a lack of awareness of how bad things are.