The daughter of Colombian and Dominican immigrants, Mejia ran on an adamantly anti–Donald Trump message and secured a whopping 70 percent of the vote as a result. The Associated Press called her victory shortly after the votes started rolling in.
70 percent… wow!
The progressive Democrat’s positions echo several of the policies that made Sanders a national phenomenon, including support for universal health care coverage, tuition-free college, student loan forgiveness programs, and strengthening unions and expanding labor protections in order to bolster America’s middle class.
She sounds like a Democrat who wants to win and is against genocide.
Mejia has also been vocal in her criticism of Israel, publicly denouncing the state’s war on Palestine as a genocide. That caught the attention of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which funneled money into the race to bolster her opponents. In the end, the pro-Israel lobby’s efforts may have been one of the reasons that voters in New Jersey sent Mejia to Congress.
Awesome!
The counter point is don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.
But voting for the lesser of two evils is exactly what’s gotten us here. I’m 38. The Democrats have been running the “vote for us or it’s the end of the world, this is the most important election of our lives! Harm reduction fam!” bit for my entire adult life. And when they get in power, they never bother to put in place reforms that would actually prevent future authoritarian takeovers. They bitch about not having 60 votes in the Senate, while refusing to do the things they can with the power they have.
How often do you hear Democrats talking about dismantling the post-9/11 security state? Biden ran on opposing fascism, but he didn’t lift a finger to dismantle the tools of fascism. Instead, he just wanted to use those powers for himself.
The screw up that your generation made was merely voting for the lesser evil, and not attempting to run and campaign for the furthest left people that would create real change. You don’t stop at voting for the lesser evil, you also push into the next election with the goal to shove them out
Which generation is this?
This has been going on for some time; lack of participation in primaries to result in poorer candidates. I recall around 2010 Americans being warned about poor participation, especially in primaries and midterms and the reaction was to be told that it was their right not to vote and to mind their own business. I’d say those who didn’t participate around then are probably more responsible than anyone else for the current Democrats.
At least to millennials and later Gen X this has been a thing, so it’s covered a couple of generations. I’d probably say even earlier, maybe. At least since Gingrich and Ryan held their positions and started obstructing.
When they aren’t good, then you’re just voting evil. Stop voting evil like it makes things better.
Abraham Lincoln thought black people should not marry whites. I guess we should have let the slavers win because we don’t want to vote for the lesser evil. The slaves will just have to suffer — I can’t have voting for the lesser evil on my conscience.
Man, false dilemmas everywhere.
Stop waiting for perfect. Good change happens over time it’s rarely immediate. If you wait for perfect you’re liable to miss people doing enough good to allow perfect to happen later.
People are nuanced and we don’t live in a black and white world. Hillary. Kamala. Gavin. Obama. None of them are perfect but they’re on the path there.
People need to stop being so pious around their politics.
Sometimes moving in the wrong direction is necessary before moving in the right direction. Progress isn’t linear. Often a weak and useless candidate on the correct side needs to lose before a competent and effective candidate can actually stand a chance. If Al Smith had won, we wouldn’t have ever had FDR.
I don’t think any of these people are on the path to defeat fascism. They’re all fascist enablers. They don’t want to fight fascism, they just want to pause it or slow it down a bit.
So you’re an accelerationist. Pray tell, why should you be seated at the table to form a new government, when you did not vote to stop the fascists, and when people have tried to stop them all guys like you do is passive aggressively talk about their morals, while doing nothing to stop the nazis?
I’m not pious, I’ve just realize neither party represents the people and are a detrimental. I’ll vote in primaries for better representation but if Newsom is their candidate in 2028, they’re losing.
Yeah fuck them dems, all they’ve done for people is pass stuff like student loan forgiveness (that SCOTUS fucked with bad logic), legalized gay marriage, made pot legal in Dem states, and a whole lot of other progressive shit, right?
They’re not representing the people at all clearly.
I can cherry pick too! Such as Biden being a rider on the bill to make student loan debt harder to discharge, often times the Dems will vote for more police funding, and the authorization for military force in 2001 that got us into the war on terror. Also check out who contributes to them and see it’s the same as the Republicans and try to explain that one jackass.
Jackass? I have a political science degree, sweety.
Dems fund cops more because up until BLM, it was a policy that was bipartisan to do. Now, way more democrats are leery about writing blank checks to cops. Also, were you even alive for the leadup to the Iraq war? Because I was. The democrats were given fake intelligence to justify the war. You expect people to just unilaterally oppose going after the people who attacked us after the biggest attack on the country since Pearl Harbour?
Businesses literally donate to all parties, that’s how shit works in this country. Lemme guess, you sit on the sidelines and want everything to change in the world, and when a politician gives you 50%, 75%, or 40% of what you want, that’s not enough. And then they lose, and now that politician that is now in office will give you 0% of what you want, and you now complain that you’re not being represented.
Here’s some news for you, cupcake. Politics is always about the lesser evil.
If you need to personally be courted, have every view of yours represented, and believe that chasing a plurality of voters is somehow a bad thing, then you’re the problem. Grow up. People who sat off on the sidelines and didn’t vote against the Nazi are just as guilty as those who pulled the lever for trump.
TL:DR don’t care. What do you people not realize that we see no difference between neo-liberals and just main line conservatives? That both are u- oh fuck it you won’t see the light.
Sweet enjoy no one listening to you. Have fun on the sidelines.