• disorderly@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    As an American, I can confirm that every election cycle is literally this. In 25 or so years of voting, I have never once avoided some talking head explaining how any policy left of processing immigrants into Sysco food would alienate “moderates” and lose the election to someone that’s actually bad.

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      As if they would be processed into something edible were talking about Americans it would be left to rot for a while then made prison grade

      • MrNobody@quokk.auOP
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        Because the DNC is controlled by the elites. You cannot fix the system by voting in it, it’s rigged to their advantage.

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          Can’t you primary them out of control? Join, volunteer & push out the limp fucks? I mean, the Tea Party was able to take over the GOP in less than a decade

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            This seems to be a very good point on it’s surface. However, the GOP got cooked by a dozen billionaires working very hard and spending a lot of money against a dozen other billionaires. The tea party and eventually the magats, where in no way grass roots.

            If you can find a few dozen billionaires, and they might have to be centi-billionaires at this point, it’s not the 90s anymore, if you can find a dozen of them, you have a chance to sway the DNC over the next 30 years just like the magat billionaires did.

            Do you know a dozen hundred billionaires who want a 95% tax rate on their fortunes, strong, pervasive worker unions and legal protections, a $70 minimum wage, an end to “political donations”, a complete overhaul of the police and judicial system, free education and healthcare, etc? I bet we can’t find one that wants even just the first one.

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            No the primary is controlled it doesn’t actually have to obey its rules this most recent time they didn’t even hold one

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              Bar some very specific cases, they’re holding primaries for every electable house and senate seat that comes up every 2-4 years.

              Sure, party leadership tries to steer these (same as GOP) but if you want to break their balls: that’s where to do it

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                no, they already argued that the primaries are a suggestion to get the feeling of the voters and are not binding.

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        Because the parties can cheat declare whoever they want winner or just whatever the FBI will kill you if you go too far left and are politically viable its w whole thing