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Democrats Need to Make Republicans Fear the Consequences of Attempting a Dictatorship
(washingtonmonthly.com)
this post was submitted on 25 Apr 2025
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sure is, because god knows the centrist dems havent learned a single thing from their loss and will play the same losing strategy they always do next election.
Spreading FUD against Democrats helps Trump get reelected.
During the last election it was all "now is not the time to change course."
Well now we have over three years to re-tool the Democratic party into something that can win. But we still have people saying "Nooo we actually need Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi and all these useless benchwarmers to win."
No we fucking don't. There is plenty of time to make change. Unless you don't actually want change from these conservatives in all but name.
No one is saying this. It’s more like “Voters have not been voting for progressives. If democrats primary more progressives, democrats will lose elections as much as progressives do. We can’t afford to do that against Trump.”
What this actually means is "we have not allowed the voters any progressives to cast votes for". The people who really most care about voting for progressives are doing so, and are voting third party. This is by design. If the DNC fielded any actual progressives they'd likely receive such a flood of record voter turnout that the Dems would then have their hands forced into actually accomplishing something to the detriment of their campaign donors. This can't be allowed to happen because then the money faucet turns off. They've been controlled opposition, running on a platform of "at least I'm not that guy", for as long as I've been alive and I can only assume several decades prior. The momentum of the two-party system blocking out viable third party candidates is what safely allows this for them.
Implement ranked choice voting now and we can rip this entire ugly weed up by the roots. Making the two-party megalith vulnerable will light a whole lot of fires underneath a whole lot of asses in the existing structure, as well as actually enable more than two political parties to exist in America.
Unfortunately this change must come from the bottom up, because the DNC from the top down benefits from the status quo and won't shoot themselves in the foot with this. This can't happen until a suitable number of leftist/independent/third-party representatives are already elected for local and state office to successfully make the push for this in congress, which puts us in a fine catch-22 where we probably need RCV in order to elect independents but we probably need to elect independents to implement RCV.
I hate it here.
Democrats being feckless losers with no spine or vision is how Trump got elected and re-elected.
It was a combination of foreign election influence, billionaire class and GOP propaganda. And in the end Trump won by 1.5%.
Democrats can only do what the voters allow them to do. All the groups I mention above are actively trying to stop them.
We gave them the means in 2020. They didn't use it.