No Stupid Questions

Firstly, pray America has a future. You are currently becoming dumbfuckistan.

center right is as far as america goes, and its the most conservative western country. Besides the DNC prevents any viable progressive from running ever.

they only allow AOC, AND BERNIE in congress solely to take attention off from themselves. like how schumer had a slew of dems to take the fall for ending the shutdown, in order to shield the other dems from being primaried.

more or less both parties make back-door deals with each other not privy to the voters.

at the time of bernie and obama, yea it was possible, as soon as trump got elected, it went out the window. as the DNC had not come up with a candidate as good as bernie or OBAMA since, just milquetoast AIPAC supporting candidates.

We might be able to get a progressive to run as an independent in the general. If they try to go through the democratic party they will be backstabbed, while also inheriting all the DNC's baggage and idiocy.

We had FDR once 😭

There’s a lot of doomerism happening in these comments, so I’m just gonna add in that yes, I do think there’s a chance. A small chance, but a chance nonetheless

Right now shit sucks real bad. People know this. That’s why Trump won the first time. He ran as an anti-establishment everything candidate and people—not just his bigoted cultists—ate it up. But things didn’t get better. So then people voted for Biden bc he was the opposition to Trump who had become the establishment as the sitting president. And Biden won and shit still sucked. So then they went back to Trump bc there was no viable republican or democrat candidate outside of Trump and Biden/Harris. (Yes Bernie should have been the answer but America is currently a two party system and he was robbed of a primary election.)

So now that everything sucks and is getting worse and we’ve tried republicans and democrats and none of it is working and most candidates refuse to talk about real issues like affordability, people are starting to say “fine. I’ll find a different candidate then.”

And that’s how we got Zohran Mamdani, an openly democratic socialist as mayor of New York City. All across the country progressive candidates are using this momentum to primary out establishment dems. Not all are winning, but many of the races are close, like Kat Abughazaleh’s race. Even that helps because it shows dems that if they want to keep their seat as the controlled opposition so they can keep getting their bribes, then they have to change their messaging and priorities. People aren’t satisfied with a campaign to return to pre-Trump business as usual. People want a candidate that works for them

So check who’s on the ballot of your dem primaries (which are happening rn and through the summer depending on where you live) and see if there are any progressive candidates and do what you can to support them. Donate, volunteer, spread the word, and most importantly, show up and vote in the primary and the elections in November. Even local candidates like city council members and judges can have a lot of power if they have enough numbers and the support of the people

I know a lot of people on lemmy say that America is beyond repair and that the only answer at this point is a violent revolution but not only is this not realistic, it’s not helpful. A violent revolution would be devastating and the amount of lives lost would be horrifying. Theres also the fact that most violent revolutions result in a military authority taking power rather than a true democratic rebuilding. It’s much easier to fantasize about a violent revolution than it is to do the slow, tedious work of creating real change from the ground up

There’s no need to jump to the worst case scenario when we have a prime opportunity to make real change and build grassroots movements. Like I said, this is our chance to capitalize on people’s anger and dissatisfaction with the system to build class consciousness and grassroots movements. Do what you can, even if it doesn’t seem like a lot, and stay hopeful. We’ll get through this together by supporting each other

If america can ever return to a normal parliamentary democracy instead of only giving it's people the choice between two parties, maybe

Yes.

But we will probably watch them die on tv.

But it's possible.

Younger people can still be terrible politicians

at this point it's hard to say if we'll even have an election in general

It's about to be do-or-die I feel..

Progressive Americans have to defeat the mini-boss (DNC) before they can on the main-boss (GOP).

There's a chance the GOP can crack open for a Progressive popout but the MTGs and such already got there years ago so I wager thats about at 0% odds now.

Yes, we elected progressive presidents in the early 20th century. A century ago.

Then we decided in the 70s to stop being progressive.

Not in my lifetime or the lifetimes of my youngest family members. Bernie is a centrist and he's seen as too radical left.

Elections 2028:

90y old republican with dementia, salivating to the microphone

Vs

88y old democrat on wheelchair, suffering terminal cancer, taking painkillers directly to the bloodstream.

Unfortunately during the debate, republican saliva shorted out cables in the microphone, while Democrat fell into coma.

Elections are won by the republican, democrats are weeping on bluesky, wondering why people voted for a shitty president again.

The End.

Nothing is impossible. Might be improbable, but definitely possible!

not anytime soon though because the Democrats won't let any of them win

Yes but it will be after a catastrophe that devastates the economy like another great depression, civil war or world war.

Won't happen until both the Republican and Democratic parties are dead and buried. As we've seen over the last decade, they're more than happy to work together if it means keeping progressives out of office.

Define progressive

Not very long anymore.

They will be so very far behind in all fields of tech and business because of the extreme conservativism. The world isn't going to watch anymore who gets elected there, if at all. Nobody cares.

Yes!