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The man right here. Time to send some letters
They'll listen to corporate donations, not their constituents.
Check this list against the Democrats who caved and ended the government shutdown.
Look at all those DINOS
Republicans: we're going to try to repeal the 17th amendment and have permanent control of the Senate.
Democrats: like 6 socialists got elected, we're going to shoot each other now.
These are the fascists who were screeching at you to just suck up a bit of genocide and vote blue no matter who. The ratchet effect is so real.
I'm still gonna scream blue no matter who, but I'd really prefer it's not these guys.
"Blue no matter who" is a peace deal, which these guys are breaking.
So what's the solution in your opinion?
Revolution. Start organizing your community so that real people have political power, not the rich ghouls.
In an intelligent, rational country demsocialists and liberals would each have their own separate party.
The US is constitutionally saddled with first past the post voting, which makes more than two parties difficult to represent at the national level. For some reason the two existing parties are unwilling to change that.
Misinformation. I literally vote rank choice in the US.
Over a dozen states have already banned ranked choice voting. The establishment knows that if it were to catch on then elected officials will more accurately reflect the actual will of the people and undermine the liberal hegemony, so they banned it.
13 corpo-democrats that need to be primaried with democratic socialists.
Israel first coalition
Honestly, 13 is not a lot. It's certainly possible that they've got silent backing of many of the other dems in the house, but even if they do, the fact that they're silent about it tells you that they know this is a risky position to take.
They've been doing this for a while though. It only takes a handful of votes to torpedo a bill, so they get a handful of Democrats in safe districts to be the bad guy of the week. The rest of the party gets to look progressive without any risk of actually passing a good bill.
That's 6% of Dems in the house, and we get some slackjaw crowing about scratching liberals. This could be the rise of a new, better Democratic party, and people are still insistent on being unpleasant about it!
I wouldn’t say the party is. The party itself is very firmly neo-lib to centrist and pulling further right. I would say that individuals associated with the party are democratic socialist, but at this point they should start their own party.
Let the Republican party collapse, the dems take up the right wing reins, and then actually have a party that pulls left full of progressives and socialists. Pipe dream, I know.
If you start your own party you will not find it easy to get on the ballot.
13 useless "representatives"
Very disappointing. This is why I haven't donated to the party itself in years, only to individuals.
Oh look, it's my shitbag congressman. I'm actually really disappointed. All the electoralism talk made me finally bother to go vote in this primary after sitting a few out and... both establishment incumbents won in a landslide. I fucking hate my district. A lot of them fall into the "embarrassed Republican" category of Dems. There are some nice people out there. I did work along with our local DSA years ago, it's just not nearly enough to overcome the fucking NIMBYs/Zionists who live here.
Name and shame. Who are the 13?
The list has been posted in the thread
This is why I say im a progressive is someone asks me. Im definitely not a liberal. These a holes prioritize economic liberalism at the cost of social liberalism every time they are pressed. Vote em out.
At least they are outing themselves so we easily know who to vote out