• ZILtoid1991@lemmy.worldEnglish
      101·
      7 months ago

      If you replace “democrat” with “mainstream liberals”, and “republicans” with “conservatives”, then you got a meme about politics in general in most of the developed world.

      I don’t like them, but it was still heartbreaking to see Demokratikus Koalíció, a mainstream liberal party that was probably the most progressive in the whole Hungarian opposition block at that point, is cozying up to anti-trans ideas.

    • Wes4Humanity@lemm.eeEnglish
      61·
      7 months ago

      Tried this with Bernie… The DNC rigged the primary… first goal needs to be to take over the Dem party. Which would actually be pretty easy since like 5 people show up to those elections, but only insiders really ever know about them.

      If you’re curious, every state, and many towns/counties have their own Democrat party… Find yours, figure out who the shills are and get like 10 people to vote for you to replace them during their next elections. The DNC leadership is elected by the state Dems, so once you’ve taken over your state you can start taking over the DNC.

      • ShadyGrove@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        7 months ago

        Local and state primaries are a thing, and local politics probably affect you more anyway. It’s better to start a movement from the bottom up rather than top down.

  • Sasha [They/Them]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    433·
    7 months ago

    Innuendo Studios has a good video on this in their alt right playbook series. Republicans will gladly appeal to the far right, Democrats want to distance themselves from the left as much as possible and are instead focused on also appealing to the right…

    Ultimately, while a lot of the parties policies are different on the surface, Democrats still win when Republicans are in power because they’re part of the same class, hoarding wealth works for both sides. Democrats seemingly only exist to make the system vageuly stomachable (is that even a word?) to the rest of America.

  • wildbus8979English
    322·
    7 months ago

    Ohai!

    I’m glad someone improved it though, I was on my phone when I did it and couldn’t get the finger to overlap the sign!

  • imPastaSyndrome@lemm.eeEnglish
    253·
    7 months ago

    So what you’re saying is that we only need to push down on the Democrats lever and we’ll fly to the left

    • agamemnonymousEnglish
      41·
      7 months ago

      And I doubt most of us are “duped”. We know this is how it works, and the best strategy is still to keep butting back up against the catch until we have reach the conditions to lift it. Every Dem victory is like a pause button on the rightward slide while we boost candidates for the next primary.

      • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        7 months ago

        I don’t even live in the states anymore and I still vote. The rightward slide affects the whole world, can you imagine what will happen to Ukraine if Trump wins? And after Ukraine, it’s war in the Baltics. And then there’s Taiwan. And South Korea is probably about to be in trouble too, I’m sensing.

        I have full clarity. When the devil is going to take you unless you play the game, you keep playing. He knows you know it’s rigged, but you keep playing until maybe you can pull a fast one. It’s the only hope.

  • Keeponstalin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    226·
    7 months ago

    Voting Harris is the right thing to do from a lesser evil standpoint. I think everyone should, but I understand those who won’t from an anti-genocide standpoint and won’t blame them for it, unless they vote Trump, that’s unacceptable. You might as well write in Bernie if you’re thinking Green, they got the same chance of winning. Ultimately, it’s on Harris and her campaign strategy for failing to part from Biden on Israel. They are taking that risk, which I think is very dumb and dangerous considering the sentiment of voters, it’s on them whether it pans out or not.

    What’s far more important is for everyone to vote down ballot. Find out which options support progressive policies and vote for them.

  • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
    92·
    7 months ago

    The primary way that the Dems keep it from going left is by keeping the stupid filibuster around, hamstringing the ability for them to pass legislation when they hold the senste, house, and oval office. They can achieve the same goal by holding only one of the three and it isn’t like the Republicans respected the completely voluntary filibuster when it was time for them to stack the courts.

  • elrik@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    7 months ago

    How exactly do Democrats block movement back to the left? What does it even mean to move “back” to the left when the goals of the left are things we literally have never had before?

    • Tinidril@midwest.socialEnglish
      21·
      7 months ago

      It amazes me that so many people are oblivious to how far things have moved towards the right and towards authoritarianism over the past 50 years. Sure, we’ve inched forwards on a handful of social issues, but corporate power, the prison system, the military industrial complex, privacy rights, and the social safety net are all in much worse shape today than 50 years ago. “The era of big government is over” came from Bill Clinton, not Reagan or Bush. Income inequality has soared thanks to both Republican and Democratic policy. Republicans have been worse by a long shot, but they both have moved us in the same direction.