• gravitas_deficiency
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    1 day ago

    From where I’m standing, it looks a whole hell of a lot like the Democratic establishment players are handing power directly to Republicans to rule completely unopposed, so I’m really not sure what your point is.

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      24 hours ago

      If the voters had wanted the Democrats in power, things would look very different to the vast majority of Americans today. Not the progressive utopia some envision, but much better than what we have.

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      21 hours ago

      My point is that we need to have an organized political structure to get progressive people elected who will actually promote progressive policies. Saying “Burn Down the Dems” with literally no plan to put up opposition to Republicans is beyond short sighted strategically.

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        19 hours ago

        Gonna be brutally honest: at this point, I’m becoming suspicious that the DNC was acting as controlled opposition, in which case it would be absolutely justified and necessary to burn the Democratic Party down. Seriously, how are they so fucking incredible at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory? It genuinely beggars belief how reliably they manage to do that, and then fail to press any advantage when they DO somehow manage to eke out some small sliver of control and agency.

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          Sure, let’s say they are controlled opposition. What do we do after we burn down the democratic party? What then? Because I do not like the prospect of what comes after a single party takes complete control.

          There is a lot of talk about burning and destroying but nothing about what comes after and it’s the “What comes after” that has me most worried.