4d ago

One party deserves criticism for being insufficient. One party deserves nothing but scorn and opposition.

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Yeah for sure AOC represent Democrats 😂😂😂. They are all behind her and sure will let her run for primary and win like they did with Bernie Sanders. LMAO
- How about repeatedly bringing up the flaws of First past the post voting every election cycle and then doing nothing to solve it in the blue states they control?
  
  I can no longer believe it's in good faith. These are people with law degrees who pretend to be unaware of why Bush won in 2000. If they don't explicitly oppose FPTP by now, then they're pissing on your leg and telling you it's raining.
  
  My city implemented ranked choice recently. Progress is being made. Just not as fast as you tankies want because you don't seem to understand that moving something as large as the United States happens on the scale of decades not months.
- Did Bernie not run in the primary? I remember him having his ass handed to him in my state.
  
  I phone banked for him on his 2 most possible runs. He's way too old. AOC is the only half decent insider option in all of DC now.
  After a lifetime of voting for the lesser evil to make the ship sink a little slower, voting blue from Kerry to Harris in the general after primarying for the most leftwing candidate available, and feeling dirty every time, either they can give me a candidate that isn't actively choking as they fellate oligarch dick, or I'll watch it all burn from home.
  
  I guess from my perspective you still realised they were still the lesser of two evils. You are right the system is fucked and the Democrats did not do enough to change the status quo particularly in terms of correcting the wealth disparity we see now.
  Let’s hope the US actually have a chance at another fair election with a candidate you deserve because as it looks right now everyday the current fascist regime that is Trump administration moves towards a future where you may not get that chance.
  
  Democrats simply have no levers to pull to make wholesale changes. I remember Hillary attempting to engage with healthcare reform during her time as First Lady and being pilloried for it. Obama's administration couldn't muster nearly enough votes to enact single-payer healthcare and had to opt for a market based solution that just eked through congress, only to be lambasted by the modern left for it.
  Many around these parts act as if Democrats can just enact reforms by fiat and do not answer to a largely centrist, if not conservative, constituency. A cursory examination shows this has never been the case; the center/left has always had to govern via consensus.
  Now "leftists" are eating their own to a degree that leaves me often suspecting that many are little more than poorly disguised MAGA adherents bleating accelerationist nonsense. This thread and any other like it is replete with these moans of surrender, and who can be surprised? Organizing takes much more effort than vomiting into a keyboard and these folks are by and large too lazy to suss out an understanding of recent history, instead choosing to repeat the same canards (see: the conspiracy theory of independent Bernie being cheated in lieu of not being able to come close to winning the Democratic primary.)
  
  Does nobody remember Biden and Warren splitting the Bernie vote or
  
  IMHO it was more Warren splitting Sanders' vote even though she knew she would lose. The establishment dems wanted Biden.

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