These two out here organizing while the Democrats do absolutely fuck all (and behind close doors have discussed EMBRACING the American first movement)
this post was submitted on 22 Mar 2025
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The Democratic Party is part of the problem and just like the Republican Party has to go
For anyone who wants to say “just try to transform the party like Trump did with the Republicans”. Shut the fuck up, you are also a part of the problem. The transformation of the Republican Party was speed up by Trump and his cult of personality but it began decades ago. Look towards Bush Jr, Bush Sr, Regan, Nixon and you can see the rot runs far deeper than just Trump.
The Democratic Party has no quick fix to save it, since Lyndon B Johnson the party has followed the Republicans’ move further right. Nothing we do now will meaningfully pull the party back to the left in time. The rot runs far deeper than many want to admit. The party is bought by billionaires and the leadership knows it.
The Republican Party was founded in 1854 and won the presidency just 6 years later. That is faster than it will take to reform an entirely rotten and complicit party. Time to move on from a dying party, there’s just not the time to remove the rot and fix the extensive damage.
And then they'll rig the dnc so their legacy candidate is on the ballot instead who we really want.
Within the narrow vision of trying to change things from within an actively crumbling system that might not exist by the next time an election is supposed to happen, they're the best bet there. From what I can glean, the message at these rallies has basically been: vote out status-quo Democrats.
So we'll see how that goes.
Lemmy users with legal degrees should draft up a "Project Progressive Liberty" playbook as a counter to project 2025 crap.
Needs an update. There's a lot Marx got right, but a lot of assumptions and beliefs that didn't pan out, too. Those need to be accounted for.
A new document would probably be more effective too if written to specifically address a specific country's governing system/structure.
I mean
Colorado voted for dems in the presidential and in 4 out of 8 congressional districts (greeley is part of #8 which was won by conservatives by 0.74% margin)
It just seems a little unusual to me to call it a conservative area. Greeley is just a ways north of Denver.
I'll take that bet.
It's an hour away but there is a college there.
You must have caught me in that breif moment before I made the edit. I decided to check the bus routes myself and it only reaches to either Brighton or Longmont the latter of which is 39 miles out of Greeley.
We get it, you're downplaying the popularity of progressive policy.
To that end, no nit can go unpicked.
What does she mean "in every dimension" possible? Are we talking like non-Euclidean space, or like the Nether?
String theory, actually
Are we talking 10, 11 or 26 dimensions?
I mean a few years ago or any time during the election cycle would have also been very welcome but no time like the present.
Bernie has been doing this for as long as I knew he existed, which admittedly isn't overly long. I think AOC has come to realize that working with the party leaders is a losing proposition and is moving to a grassroots campaign. It's worth keeping in mind she's only had her seat for 6 years.
My president in 2028.
Like Doctor Strange
I need the kid with the butterfly meme with the butterfly labeled as "apocalyptic" and the kid as AOC saying, "Is this 'special'?" Dgmw, I'm glad people are ostensibly doing something, the phrasing is just odd.
Is she also on mastodon? Or is a bridge working?