• JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip
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    13 days ago

    It seems to me that progressive policy, in general, is popular everywhere. Here in Missouri we got legal weed when it was put to a vote, the same with abortion rights. Across the border in Oklahoma they got one of the most lenient medical marijuana policies in the country. There are a lot of examples of similar things in other red states. The left needs to figure out a way to push progressive legislation without tying it to a party.

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      13 days ago

      The left needs to figure out a way to push progressive legislation without tying it to a party.

      I mean, it’s not like it’s a mystery…

      Read that PBS interview, all the DNC had to do was keep their thumb off the scales, and that’s what’s happening.

      The idea that it took some crazy strategy and loads of money was neoliberal propaganda to excuse why their chosen candidates wouldn’t actually help anyone.

      It is not hard to be an honest politician when you get to run in fair elections.

      And primaries never have to be fair, that’s why it’s important the party elects leadership whose sole focus is running fair and unbiased primaries. Not doing that for 30 years is why shit is so fucked right now.