• Canaconda@lemmy.ca
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      11 days ago

      IMO people need to rally behind new progressive candidates and primary more than 50% of the sitting party in 2026. About 75% of the party are incompetent at best and complicit at worst.

      People need to look past the individual members of the progressive caucus like AOC and realize the monumental organization it took to get her elected.

      Republicans fix elections. Democrats fix primaries.

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        11 days ago

        Progressives need messaging and a concise platform. ‘Fix housing, healthcare, inflation, immigration, monopolies, LGBT rights, income inequality, unemployment, gerrymandering, climate, education…’ Everyone who’s even capable of listening past 4 objectives knows they’re not all going to happen and assumes that means they’re all bullshit.

        I’ve really been liking “Tax wealth not work” but I’ll take anything stronger than “return to normalcy.”

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          10 days ago

          I’ll take anything stronger than “return to normalcy.”

          You mean the normalcy that allowed Trump1.0 to happen in the first place, and allowed Trump2.0 to grab and pervert as much power as he has now? I fully agree, there is a larger lesson to be learned from all this than “phew, thankfully the Democrats won this time, and Trump can’t run again”. There are systemic problems behind all this.