• Eldritch@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Or or, and hear me out here. We could do what has happened many different times throughout history. And take over/replace the structure of a party. The Democrats already ignore state and local elections across several red states. What if we lefties/socialist/etc instead of trying to prop up separate parties and separate candidates that always fail. Fielded our own candidates who more closely match our own ideals. And run them as Democrats in these areas. Focusing on funding them ourselves as well as whatever money the DNC apparatus might provide. We might actually start winning. And if we start winning we might actually be able to replace those in the DNC. And if we replace those in the DNC. Things might actually get better.

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      8 months ago

      Isn’t that what they said?

      converting the Democrats into a Socialist party would literally be easier

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        8 months ago

        Yeah it was, but they added more context on how it was possible, so I wouldn’t really say it was redundant.

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        8 months ago

        Succeeding? They’ve elected a tiny handful of candidates over the last thirty years so now that’s success? Lol, sounds like something a right wing Democrat would say, because that’s a very convenient result for the party itself. You’re either blindly loyal to this party or you must think we’re stupid.

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          8 months ago

          They’ve elected a tiny handful of candidates over the last thirty years so now that’s success?

          Almost all of which were elected in the past decade, that’s rather quick for a political change as large as that. And more are being elected every year.

          The DSA literally helped Bernie almost win the presidential primary, that wouldn’t of even come close to happening if the average Democrat was some right wing anti-socialist hawk.