The Democratic National Committee showing its true face
cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/1740294
cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/1740285
https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/WildingDNC.pdf
Sing it with me now, folks: 🎶... o'er the laaaaaaand of the freeeee🎶
I do see value in harm reduction, TBH. Dems are shit but, statistically, anti-electoralism is functionally equivalent to voting for the far-right. So, I see it as a way to at least make it take some work for politicians to pretend that the tenets of neoliberalism and fascism are supported by as wide a group as claimed and attempt to reduce their influence in local elections (ex. the coordinated efforts to subvert school boards and have [further] right-wing propaganda taught as fact).
Don't mistake this as actually thinking that Libs are going to help unless forced, though. They're absolutely Lucy in the picture.
This is why I'm a leftist not a lib. I vote Democrat bc no choice but I want more progressives in office....
As someone else posted on this site
"there are two types of democratic voters, centrist conservatives and hostages"
I mean yea sounds about right. The moderates are wolves in sheep's clothing. Esp when they randomly flip parties and screw us over on rights and encourage the gerrymandering to get worse 🙃
There's progressives, as well as a good breakdown of demsocs. You can be pleasantly surprised about some parts of Biden's presidency without being a centrist conservative who would have had him near the top of your list
Ok Hillary sit the fuck down.
Oh shit guess I'll just vote third party, then.
lol no
Our First Past the Post Winner Take All voting system is demonstrably the worst voting system. Any form of preference polling like Ranked Choice Voting (fairvote.org) is significantly better. No voting system is perfect, but the current one used in most of the US is the shittiest one on the market today.
Any system like RCV opens the door to more parties and candidates who don't 100% toe a party line. It also filters extreme position candidates out of primaries.
We can do better.
I've been trying to come up with a term to describe this phenomenon for a while now. Privatewashing, maybe?
Westerners are programmed to not accept certain things if done by the government directly. Publishing propaganda? Bad. Laundering government propaganda through private media outlets? Not a problem. Interfering with a foreign election? Bad. Sponsoring a "Private NGO" to do it? Totally fine. Foreign government influencing domestic policy? Bad. Multinational companies paying lobby groups to do the same? Democracy.
In this case, the government telling people that their votes don't count and that rules don't have to be followed would be flagrantly undemocratic. A private organization doing that though? Well we can't do anything about it even if it's directly relevant to the outcome of elections and national policy.
I don’t like “privatewashing”. It sounds like the longest part of my shower, and I’m not thinking about Bernie’s 2016 primary race during it.
You're right. Privatewashing does sound like a chapter in a Jordan Peterson book.
Unfortunately in the two party duopoly, they're the best we've got.
Bernie is an independent, though he has been invited to join the Democratic Party. He has refused. Why would the DNC spend its resources on Bernie when people spend considerable time, effort and money that are actually party members? By rule, an independent cannot run for nomination for the Republican party.
This is the real reason. Bernie refused to meaningfully cooperative with the party who basically have a policy of allowing members across the widest political spectrum of any party, and then was shocked that they did completely legal and defensible things that might have affected his odds of winning the Primary, a Primary that was still ultimately decided by vote counts that he lost by a landslide. Nobody alienated Bernie (just look at Warren who writes half the bills he supports), he alienated himself.
Do people know why Bernie caucused with the Democrats? Because only about 9% of Americans identify as far left as progressive, and we only win something if we can compromise it with the only political party that works in good faith.
This is why. The DNC is trash.
Sure. You've got to agree with a person with such great logic.
Truly AMERICA is the freest state on earth cuss you can vooooooooooote right? ...Right?
Well, yeah. If I started the Dickweed Party and decided I'd be the candidate, I wouldn't have to let someone else take the nomination if I didn't want to.
You're all just better off blocking this user. He's been trolling hard lately.
Ok, I get this, but let's take a closer look:
Have you ever seen such a high resolution Pikachu meme? Such a shame it's been wasted on more political rhetoric that no one asked for. More pixels in the damn quotes text, how wild!
If you don't want politics go back to Reddit.
ITT tankies pretend they don't know that legal arguments are meant for court and are made to argue from every angle.
No, this isn't an admission that the primaries were rigged. They weren't. It's a hypothetical argument meant to progress a legal case to summary judgment, where the lawyer argued that even if everything the plaintiff said was correct, the DNC would still win the case.
Essentially, what the lawyers for the Democrats were doing was "if I grant everything you claim for the sake of argument, you would still lose, and here's why." That doesn't admit anything. OP knows it, but since he's a literal Stalin-humping fascist who just wants to see anyone who wishes for a better world fail, he doesn't care.
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It may not have been an admission that the primaries were rigged, and I know nothing about the OP, but nevertheless, the primaries were rigged.
Which means you got actual evidence right? And this isn't some sort of assumption based on the stats not choosing the candidate of your choice, right?
Unless you mean gerrymandering, but everyone knows that is rigged.
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