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[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (17 children)

That's bait

DEMOCRATS FAKE & BAD
VOTING BAD
EFFECTIVE OUTREACH BAD
NEWSOME BAD
NO CONSTRUCTIVE EFFORT GOOD

Where's your better candidate doing shit to beat MAGA? Where's your hard work to get them onto & through primaries onto the ballot?

Getting more progressives in office doesn't start with "not voting". It ends with voting for them when you produce a better candidate & get them on the ballot.

Bitching alone doesn't magically get better contenders to materialize on the scene to beat your opponents & win your causes. Show us a better alternative worthy of a coalition, and do the hard work of building that coalition around them.

MAGA did the hard work. They infiltrated all levels of government, all legislatures, executive posts of several states. They built coalitions from the bottom up.

The left will need to do at least as much work.

[–] anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

MAGA didn't start with the RNC demanding loyalty for party politics, it started after a bunch of online gamers mobilized against women in video games and took the party over.

Democrats dont have the same motion because they keep tossing water on any populist energy in their base, and that's exactly what is being criticized in the meme

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago (16 children)

No, maga started with the tea party taking over and demanding loyalty. You literally had to sign loyalty oaths that dictated acceptable policy or risk getting primaried by these wackos.

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[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

You could elect dems across the board and they will still be bought by AIPAC, there will be an unsustainable ecomony, and people will still need to lose civil rights to support the growing wealth inequality gap. The US as we knew it is over. Trump is just a symptom of a problem that has been getting worse for decades.

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[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 6 points 3 weeks ago

I will tell this story as many times as needed.

I reached out to a DNC backed group thats supposed to work on getting progressives into local offices so that we can start working our way up.
On my very first call with the state organizer with the DNC they asked me how much money i make currently and when i answered they told me it wasn't enough to actually run. Then they asked me if i had a wealthy family i could borrow from or a wealthy church. I said i was Buddhist and they got excited aaying Buddhists are usually good for high donation amounts so i should get them to connect with the group.

I asked about me running and what we could do to help my chances and without hesitation they said, i should just donate what little i had to them and back one of their better candidates when they let me know when they have found someone.
They went on to brag that they have a 30% win rate.

The blue party doesnt want normal people risiing in ranks. It dirties their purity and careful club they have made for themselves. The left needs to do double the work and then some.

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[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

This is the Paradox of Tolerance in practice.

[–] LoreSoong@startrek.website 6 points 3 weeks ago

Whys it muted?

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