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The answer is that you vote in the primaries to shift the party left as far as you can, and then you vote in the general for whatever version of that party you end up with that time around. You don't sit on your ass in the expectation that they will come to you; you make them come to you.
The primary that the DNC messes with to get the candidate they want every time? Or the one they skip or cancel when it doesn't suit them? Not saying people shouldn't vote in primaries, but the DNC is way beyond being fixed by actions like this.
The person you are responding to loves this and is gloating.
Primaries. Plural. As in there are a whole bunch of them. Not just the one for president.
You don't start at the top. You get your candidates in from the bottom up, and then you go for the top jobs.
Look, you only have two options here; fix the party you have, or come up with a realistic plan for building a new one that can somehow be electorally viable. So unless you really think you can offer a clear and actionable path to the latter, you're stuck with the former.
3.) Pass electoral reform at the state level so people can be free to vote outside the two party system and still have their vote counted against Republicans.
Do you believe in democracy? Do you believe in freedom?
I mean I'm not American so I can't do much except watch and yap on the internet, but I do think making a new party and starting local is a lot more viable than changing the DNC. At least that way the fossils at the top won't be fighting you at every turn.
The DNC plays favorites with those too so...
The US' two party system is a result of our first-past-the-post voting system. We need to change the system first or else all leftist third parties will act as spoilers for the Democrats.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo
The two-party system guarantees a party duopoly, but it doesn't say anything about which parties become part of that duopoly so it's possible to depose one of the two big parties in a certain election like what Bernie did in Vermont. Now at least for a while you'll end up splitting the vote, but you'll need to accept that much if you want to get anything done because the DNC will absolutely not, never pass election reform or shift left.
Unfortunately the Democrats and Republicans have been entrenched for decades. The first-post-the-post system played out long before we were even alive.
Bernie is not deposing the Democratic party, but co-opting it. He caucuses with the Democratic Party. We need to fully co-opt the Democratic party which is what Bernie tried to do in 2016 and 2020. This is what Trump has done to the Republican Party with the MAGA movement.
Until we change the system, third parties will always split the vote. It's a mathematical certainty.
There are numerous examples of rank choice voting being implemented in America in blue states.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked-choice_voting_in_the_United_States
The Democrats have been incrementally shifting left since Clinton. Biden was our most progressive president since at least Carter by virtue of being the least conservative. Democrat Supreme Court justice nominations and appointments led to gay marriage being legalized.
If people on the left vote for Democrats, the Democrats will shift left. If people on the left spend their time denying themselves their most useful strategy to gain political power during elections, voting for Democrats, then the Democrats will shift right. edit: typo
Doesn't mean it can't change now. No, lemme rephrase that: It has to change or y'all are absolutely fucked.
Bernie is independent. He's not a democratic, yet he's winning elections in Vermont without "splitting the vote". That's what I meant by having deposed them.
For local office, and only two states doing it for state office. This doesn't mean much for federal office, which is where you will see resistance from the DNC.
Yeah, and they decided that was too much snd tried to go back to the right while thinking they'll still get progressive votes, when progressives by your claim were supposed to have leverage. Biden also led the US's support for Israel's genocide, again when progressives were supposed to have "leverage". They're shifting left one step and back three, as seen by Harris's support for that idiotic border wall and democrats coopting Republican immigration policies.
The way we do that is by voting for Democrats and telling other people to vote for Democrats.
Exactly. He is an independent who caucuses with the Democrats. He hasn't deposed the Democrats, they are still here, in fact Bernie works with them. The goal is not to get rid of the Democratic Party, but to control it.
My point is that the claim that
is demonstrably false. Democrats have passed election reform which means they can pass it again at the federal level. Things that gets done at the federal level can find their root at the state level, such as gay marriage.
Because people didn't vote for them.
I do not claim anyone has leverage over political parties via voting. There is no fulcrum on the political spectrum. People who vote have power. People who do vote have given up their power.
Biden was following 70 years of US policy. To be clear, Biden is complicit in Israel's genocide of Palestinians. But the idea that a US President would drop a long standing ally is not a serious one. Especially when taking into account that the ally is Israel and Biden is a life long zionist. Biden was undermining negotiations with Israel during the Obama administration.
Biden is not representative of non-zionist Democrats. Unfortunately thanks to the useless strategy of non-voting we are going to see a lot more zionists in power in Congress for at least the next two to years. This will have devastating consequences for Palestine and the Middle East in general.
Also again, there is no leverage. Only political power. There is no fulcrum on the political spectrum. Without something to pivot on there is no leverage. There is no reason why non-voters or third party voters would compulse any mainstream political party to do anything when there are voters that can be targeted.
The Democrats take one step forward to the left, while the Republicans take three steps back to the right. The Democrats refusal to embrace any populist narrative or any narrative at all means they can never shape the discourse. All they can do is try to comprise on the issues laid out by the Republican's narrative. The Democrats need to be co-opted by a socialist and progressive movement and then be given a populist narrative to win votes.
Jessica Cisneros says hello.