And this is why Democrats will keep losing.

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Playing nice again nazis always worked out fine. Remember how we defeated Hitler by just asking him politely to stop killing people?

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Is Neville around? We should ask him.

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AOC and others who are prepared to fight this bullshit need to spin off their own political party. I figure it would only take the departures of a handful of high-profile progressives to make the whole house of cards fall. The country is being pillaged, and the Dems’ response has been completely fucking impotent. Time to build a new party that isn’t run by geriatric milquetoasts.

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spin off their own political party

I think the idea behind organizations like the Democratic Socialists of America and the Working Families Party is to have party-like organizations that work within the Democratic party so they don’t act as “spoilers” given the 2-party system. (I could be wrong about that tho…)

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This is how they lose.

If you had a party actually for the people, you would get a lot of the Trump votes as well. Most of MAGA weren’t about racist bullshit or half of what’s happened since the changeover.

They are tired of the corporate and government corruption and Trump promised (lied) to do something about that. We need to offer the same hope without all the hate. We need to offer change without just saying the other side is evil. It isn’t the ‘other side’ that is the problem. It’s the corrupt people in positions of power and the ones that tell you to blame the ‘other side’.

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Who the fuck cares about spoiling a vote between mask off and mask on fascist. The democrats are lost we need real leadership.

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That they were so ineffective and unable to mount a campaign against an obvious felonious, grifting, lying rapist is all the proof I need that they’re incapable of leading.

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We need to take it over like those wackadoos toom over the republican party

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It’s too late for that.

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No it isn’t and talking that way is not helpful. Although, if you’re ready to give up before experiencing any actual consequences of all this then you weren’t going to be much help anyway.

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And people say .ee has the worst responses

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“We’re literally losing our democracy!!!”

votes for it to continue for the 200th time in a row

“How could this happen?!”

helps them do it again

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Sounds very democratic of them

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A vote for the democrats is a vote for Trump.

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Uhhhh

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I’m pretty sure they’re being sarcastic.

Right?

Right?

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73 points

AOC is 100% correct.

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She’s saying the thing the Radical Tankie Left has been saying since the Clinton Era. It’s good to hear someone in her position repeating the message one more time. But the fact that it has to come from a fringe member of a fringe caucus, rather than - say - Hakeem Jefferies or Dick Durban, is depressing.

We’re so far away from a McConnell style “We’re going to make Obama a one-term President” moment. Liberals simply cannot understand politics as conflict. Its always just make’n deals for your district’s rich friends and stuffing your own pockets along the way.

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Liberals ✊✊✊💦💦💦

Updoots to the left

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She suggested the full dem party to stop focusing on pronouns and idpol way back when Biden was still on ballots.

She took her pronouns out of her bio which is 100% correct, no one cares about that shit

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She took her pronouns out of her bio which is 100% correct, no one cares about that shit

Except for the people with gender neutral names

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Fuck the democrats. Let’s take BERNIE and AOC, and replace the rest in the next election.

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That’s part of what the republican partys done that’s made them so successful. If your representatives don’t represent you, primary them.

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Shit, Democrats don’t even give us a chance to primary, they just pick whoever they want.

In NJ, they had what was referred to as the county line, which would basically put the Democratic party’s candidate first on a ballot. It was abolished this year, but the idea was that the positioning on the ballot made it easier for people to just vote down the line, but the result was that you didn’t necessarily have a fair vote.

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They’re not even good enough. Both of them are turncoats. Bernie “the word genocide makes me quesy” Sanders is voting in Trump’s nominees. AOC endorsed Kamala and reinforced the “working tirelessly for a ceasefire” bullshit, every two minutes she’s folded on something new.

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AOC endorsed Kamala

Right, I’m sure the current situation is better than endorsing Kamala…

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Okay but she endorsed Kamala, and we are still in the current situation?

I disagree with dx1, and think they are worth keeping around, but the criticism that they fell right in line with a genocidal regime, and refused to stand for their principles is fully true.

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You know what, I’d take “not good enough” over “actively dismantling our democracy”, but fuck me I guess

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Great, so we’re already “lesser of two evils”-ing our hypothetical new party designed to replace the Democrats. Just great.

Here’s an idea. If we’re replacing the Democratic Party, let’s ONLY include people who aren’t traitors. Can we find five or ten people like that amongst the American population of 330 million people?

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I mean I disagree, but I am curious. Who then?

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