The victories were a clear rebuke of Trump’s politics, but also a referendum on the Democratic party’s own centrism that is complicit in the violence of masked men hunting immigrants, the funding of a genocide and the denial of healthcare to citizens of the world’s wealthiest country.
…Hakeem Jeffries, who is running for speaker of the House, will not commit to holding a vote on abolishing ICE. He opposes Medicare for All. He has said he will not hold Trump accountable for the human rights violations committed, portraying it as a question of “getting even” rather than achieving justice where it was denied. Chuck Schumer, who holds similar positions, has an extraordinarily low approval rating – yet plans to run for majority leader in the Senate. Electeds are questioning whether these men should hold these roles.
But the dissent must also come from us, as it has been. We need to demand an end to the fast violence of guns on our streets trained on our neighbors, bombs dropped from the sky and the slow violence of people dying because their healthcare was denied or their food stamps were cut.
We need to organize, and mobilize, to demand the multi-racial democracy we were promised – not a playground for the rich to get richer on the time and labor and lives of the poor.
Conservatives always wins after the democrats and worldwide liberals centrists fail. Look at France, le pen has big chance of being next president after Macron centrism failed and led to civil disobedience. It took
I’ve already acknowledged agreement of the problem; the question is implementation of a solution. If I could magically snap my fingers and put a Mamdani, AES, AOC, Talarico in every single seat in government, I would.
But again the forces of money and how poorly educated the electorate is means sometimes persuasion to vote for a better candidate doesn’t come in time, and then we must choose between Center-Right and Far-Right because the electorate only voted for these two choices, given the paradigm I laid out in my original comment.
We are not agreeing though you think money and poor education is what make conservatives wins while I think it is liberalism failures that create that reality. I don’t know how you still talk about the force of money when people outspent by 9 times still wins. Nothing happen in a snap of a finger. People used to say Americans would never elect a Black president. People like you said America would never elect an openly pro-Palestine candidate, yet Mamdani won the mayorship. Then people like you moved the goalposts to winning a senate seat, and once again, you were proven wrong. It took 94 years for Democrats to win again in Kansas. I think nothing is impossible when people who already vote decide to vote for change instead of being defeatists. The more that people who already vote, vote the right way, the more people who never voted will start voting, slowly but surely.
But my aforementioned point that went entirely ignored disproves your argument: People vote for conservatives over and over, even though it fails to create that reality even faster.
… Which means there’s more to the story in persuasion of the electorate, and people duped into voting against their own interest.
Ergo, the fearmongering. Ergo the money. Ergo the propaganda and megaphones of misinformation.
Yes, Democrats won Kansas, but it wasn’t a progressive who won it. They’re just a stepping-stone along the way to the progressivism which you and I both seek.
Please don’t put words in my mouth. I supported Obama from primaries, and I supported Mamdani. I was one of the earliest supporters and campaigners for Bernie in 2015, but still voted Hillary when it was her or Trump at the end. I feel one has strawmanned me for positions I’ve never taken.