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    23 days ago

    Democrats aren’t left at all, they are effectively center-right.

    look at sinema and manchin, they led the biden administration.

    Its a big tent, and its drafty in here.

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      22 days ago

      Manchin and Sinema consistently voted against party lines and were known for being republicans running as democrats. They consistently blocked the DNC. This is a bad faith argument.

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        Doesn’t matter, they set the boundaries for the party and they weren’t cast out or reprimanded effectively, ergo they led the Democratic party and the Biden administration.

        The DNC operates in bad faith on a constant basis, or have you forgotten Hillary’s superdelegates, or all the moderates coalescing around biden when bernie was winning the second time, its par for the course.

        The DNC only wins championing progressive policies and then turns around and fellates the most centrist most milquetoast moderates, its steeped in bad faith.

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          21 days ago

          Doesn’t matter, they set the boundaries for the party and they weren’t cast out or reprimanded effectively, ergo they led the Democratic party and the Biden administration.

          Democrats needed them to cooperate to get anything passed. If pressed too hard they would’ve switch republican and democrats would’ve gotten so little legislation passed that they would’ve been identical to the leftists that have never accomplished anything.

          This is a foreign concept to leftists because leftists don’t get elected let alone get legislation passed. Or understand the importance of voting as you’re proving.

          Working together to get a trusted candidate elected is also a foreign concept. That is why every progressive that gets elected ends up being a republican (Fetterman, Sinema, etc.).

          Yet we still have leftists complaining that the DNC won’t have open primaries. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me more than once, I must be a leftists.

          The DNC wins by trying to cater to as many voters as possible because that’s the job of a politician.

          Leftists consistently lose by refusing to work with anyone outside of their ideology which is just a small fraction of the voters.

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            21 days ago

            Yes, their strategy of crowbarring in the candidate their funders want via superdelegate or just unilateral appointment has really appealed to the majority of voters

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                21 days ago

                If there is any truth to that statement it is solely because of voter disenfranchisement through antivoter gerry-mandering, electoral college bullshit.

                So if your saying you have to vote for us its rigged in our favor then you are correct.

                But heres the thing, we can just take our ball and fuck all of yall over too, as much as you hate it you can’t win without us.

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                  21 days ago

                  Democrats have been winning without leftists since the 90s. After leftists tanked the 2024 election by not showing up to vote, democrats are better off appealing to centrists like they have every election win since the 90s.

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                    Oh really is that why Obama won? Cause he campaigned on the centrist position of universal healthcare?

                    Or maybe that’s why Hilary won?

                    Or maybe that’s why Kamala won?

                    Democrats failed to even have a conversation about gaza because their thought they could win on centrism, and guess what they fucking lost hard with their prosecutor president.

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            21 days ago

            Damn you’re right that’s must be why Harris won so hard by campaigning with liz cheney 🤮.

            Keep losing, nobody wants what you’re selling.

            Move left or be left behind.

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              21 days ago

              Trump lost by more than Harris in 2020 then came back and won. If he followed your advice he wouldn’t have won in 2024.

              Leave it to leftists (a group that never wins elections) to quit too soon.

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                21 days ago

                I voted Democrat in every single election since I turned 18, im 34 now, the democrats are not going to get us where we need to go.

                Democrats don’t fight hard enough, and they reach across the aisle to pivot right at every opportunity.

                They would rather court never trumpers like liz cheney 🤮 than make concessions to their own base

                Democrats don’t want to win, they want to capture progressive momentum and suffocate it.

                Your party is not entitled to our votes when you fail to deliver.

                Merrick Garland ass motherfuckers telling me the left cant win.

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                  21 days ago

                  Leftists consistently lose elections and have never gotten a single piece of legislation passed. They are a very small fraction of all voters and they refuse to work with other ideologies. This guarantees they will continue to lose and never get any legislation passed.

                  Democrats are better off working with centrists because they actually show up to vote. Unlike leftists who can easily be tricked into not voting in their own best interest by using hot topics like Gaza or whatever the current event is.

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                    21 days ago

                    Damn apartheid is so hot right now

                    The left wasn’t tricked, we’re just sick of being taken for granted and having our concerns blatantly ignored. Your failure to make concessions and compromises with your own base is shooting yourself in the foot.

                    Lol good luck courting conservatives when the Republican party delivers so hard for their base, what the fuck do you have to offer to win them over? Nothing.

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        22 days ago

        Hey, if you want I can let you borrow my goalpost mover. It’s handy for whipping up those No True Scotsmans in a jiffy.

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      23 days ago

      Ok so just for a moment let’s pretend you are now democratic God/king/ emperor.

      You get to build the new party of the left. What policies are you going to run on to garner support from the majority of Americans? I am genuinely curious what you imagine this ideal left wing party to look like.

      • Raise the minimum wage, implement a single-payer universal healthcare system.

        When Sanders was on stage at Fox News being grilled by their anchors for being “too radical”, Sanders turned to the audience and asked them if these policies were really so radical.

        The Fox News audience chanted “No!” (to the surprise of the Fox anchors).

        Slashing healthcare costs and putting more money in people’s pockets are winning strategies, especially if you can call out Republicans on their bullshit messaging.

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          22 days ago

          So the only two things your new left wing party is going to run on is higher minimum wage (no specific amounts or percentage of local cost of living or anything specific?) and single-payer universal healthcare.

          Yeah I don’t think you would get the majority of votes by making a party based around only those two things.

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              I’m not expecting a 10 page book of exactly everything you would implement and exactly how you would do it, but only answering like 10% of a question seems odd.

              That would be like me asking you to list all your ideal ingredients for a sandwich and you only said “bread” then decided you didn’t feel like thinking of the rest so you just hit send and walk away.