• Klox@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    You’re being a bitter crumudgen because there are now more Democrats that fought and won against AIPAC money and big money politics with good policy platforms. They ran on a platform of Medicare for all, ending wars, and more progressive policies. We need to see how it shakes out, and calling them ShitLibs is just naked cynicism. When it inevitably comes down to corporate Democrats blocking these efforts, you can go ahead and call them out, but the only way forward is to primary them with better people. Pretending like the new batch is the old batch is disingenuous.

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      6 days ago

      Pretending that DSA Blue is in any way meaningfully different than Third Way Blue is an exercise in idealism and a refusal to learn anything at all from history. Your Fell For It Again Award will be along in 6-12 months when the fig leaf falls off and the naked neoliberalism is back on display.

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          6 days ago

          If you know you are going to lose the vote, you are free to vote anyway it looks good to your constituents without ever really tipping your hand to who is actually pulling your strings.

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            6 days ago

            Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. Do you explain everything in your life that way? Some things are just exactly as they seem, and there doesn’t need to be some PR conspiracy. Hopefully we find out what they really think when we have the votes; no excuses.

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              5 days ago

              Only those things that qualify. I have not seen the Democrats do much more to help Americans. They usually just do less damage. The Republicans are the do evil party and the Democrats are the do nothing party. I hope I’m wrong.