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34,000! Largest rally that Bernie or AOC have ever had (lemmy.world)

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[–] kingofras@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Form a new party!!! Don’t call it Labor or Labour. Don’t call it Green. Don’t call it progressive. Don’t call it socialist or liberal.

Just give it a name that people understand and don’t have preexisting bias against. “For The People”

Take on BOTH the democrats and GOP. Become popular overnight. Keep hammering home it is not about skin colour, race or country of origin, but about the billionaires that aren’t happy with paying no tax and having billions. Make it about the 99%.

It is the only way you’ll get your country back without excessive violence. The two status quo parties are hollowed out from the inside. And both are infiltrated by foreign interests.

[–] Doctor_Satan@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

The 99% Party. It's a slick way of calling it a worker's party without sounding like a communist party.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

That's what Bernie is saying. He's calling all progressives to run as Independent, aka No Party Preference, down ballot so we can shove the Corporate DNC into the GOP where they so desperately want to be anyway.

[–] blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Ones I like after going on a Thesaurus and US Declaration of Independence wiki hole. The ones further below are just ones I thought were okay as they came to me.

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People's Voice Party

American Party

Workers Party

Freedom Party

Citizens Party

Peoples Party

Revolutionary Party

Common Party

United Party

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Workers Party

Blue Collar Party

Trades Party

Skilled Party

Collar Party

Rust Party

American Party

Freedom Party

Citizen's Party

Liberty Party

People's Party

Civil Party

Center Party

Working Party

99 Party

99% Party

Luigi Party

Rights Party

Blue Party

United Party

Sovereign Party

Human Party

Marching Party

US Party

Founding Party

Founders Party

National Party

Revolutionary Party

Colonial Party

Fundamental Party

Common Sense Party

People's Choice Party

People's Voice Party

Laws of Nature Party

Nature Party

Equal Party

Pursuit of Happiness Party

Standing Party

Family Party

Native Party

Great Party

Fighting Party

[–] friendlymessage@feddit.org 1 points 11 months ago

Party in the USA

Let's get this Party started

Party Animal

Birthday Party

The Party Party

[–] meowMix2525@lemm.ee -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

The thing is, you can "not call it socialism" all you like. The fact is that it is socialism, you have to respect people's intelligence enough to know that they will figure that out (or be easily convinced of it, if you really need an argument that doesn't respect their intelligence). When this happens, and even moreso when you inevitably reveal yourself to be socialist, it will make you look deeply insincere and subversive, because you yourself will have fed into this taboo and not done the work of separating the term from its negative stigma or generating positive media for it.

Socialism is simply the fact of the matter and being socialist means caring about material reality enough to not just lie and gaslight as a means of convincing people. When you get attacked for being socialist, you will not be able to backpedal without sabotaging your own movement, because there will be a litany of evidence that you are socialist. As there should be, or you would not have the support of actual ideological socialists (remember that whole material reality thing I just mentioned).

The material reason why socialism is a "no-no" word is because when the right attacks it, the liberal establishment does what they always do; they backpedal. Not only does this make the right's criticism look reasonable, because it confirms there is real reason to fear being associated with socialism; but it ensures that the people only ever hear the arguments against socialism, never the arguments for it. All of the arguments which are intrinsically associated with socialism; which you have done all this work to propagate; are never connected to it optically, and the people never learn what it actually is, leaving all of your policy open to attack.

What you are suggesting here is not the solution but exactly the issue that has brought us to this point.

The only way that you will ever launder the term "socialism" is by openly advocating for socialism and calling it what it is when you do. You just aren't going to beat the establishment at their own game; rather, we must show the people what it is to be respected and hear policy based in material reality that will actually address their needs, and you will win support from across the spectrum.

[–] yesoutwater@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

I disagree. And I don't mean to preach, but there is a power in words and using them (or not using them). The fight over the word and meaning of socialism is not what "the people" need right now, that can come later. This has been happening in the US closing in on a century. It's not those tolerant of material reality (as you say) you need to convince, it's those that would benefit from "the peoples" agenda that don't acknowledge material reality. Ride the wave of making billionaires pay.

Socialism is a scare word they have hurled at every advance the people have made in the last 20 years.

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security.

Socialism is what they called farm price supports.

Socialism is what they called bank deposit insurance.

Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.

Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.

When the Republican candidate inscribes the slogan "Down With Socialism" on the banner of his "great crusade," that is really not what he means at all.

What he really means is "Down with Progress--down with Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal," and "down with Harry Truman's fair Deal." That's all he means.

Harry Truman

Don't swim against this right now. These programs from the new deal and fair deal are not even called socialist by American standards anymore.

[–] remer@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago

“People” = “Communist”

[–] Sibshops@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

The worst part is that Republicans unironically believe that these are all paid actors.

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They need to organized this momentum into a proper party, maybe call it the labor party or the progress party. But most importantly they need to not be scared to use actural leftist rhetoric and appeal to class conscious workers.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Disagree. There are a huge number of republican working class that need representation, and who are not the enemy.

The anti-1% party is a much more viable proposition than going left vs right.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 0 points 11 months ago

Like Democrats, many Republicans are just voting for the "lesser evil" and aren't really loyal to their party. They just hate Democrats.

A new party sidesteps and allows those "lesser evil" Republican working class voters to jump ship. They will not ever vote for a Democrat, so stop being Democrats.