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[-] Wes4Humanity@lemm.ee 51 points 1 week ago

We're never going to badger the current DNC corporate shills into working for the people... They'll need to be replaced before we can hope to stop the ratchet effect and start making real change

[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Which policy stance are you referring to?

[-] Wes4Humanity@lemm.ee 2 points 6 days ago

Pretty much all of them... But how about citizens united just to throw out a big one?

[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Citizens United was upheld in a 5:4 voted by a conservative scotus in 2010, to overturn campaign finance laws written and passed by democrats in 1995 and 2002, and dems actually tried to put back in place some campaign finance regulations with H.R. 1 For The People Act.

In fact, they passed it twice in the house, only for it to get blocked in the senate by Republicans both times.

[-] Wes4Humanity@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago

Thanks for the info!

I guess as a start, the DNC can and should run big money/dark money/bribe free primaries. But they refuse to run free and fair primaries because they only want their corporately anointed shills to make it to the general election. Changing how the primaries are done should be top of the list when we take over the DNC and replace the shills with progressives.

[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Which Primary in particular do you think was unfair?

[-] Wes4Humanity@lemm.ee 0 points 5 days ago

The first Obama primary was the last real one

[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago

So you think the DNC fabricated 30 Million votes in 2016?

[-] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 24 points 1 week ago
[-] Wes4Humanity@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

First step is making a place everyone can access and start collecting information... Any idea how to do that? I'm afraid I'm mostly tech illiterate

2nd step: we need to map out who actually gets to vote for DNC leadership/membership

[-] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

It's more important to just build community. It will be a slow waking up for everyone to realize elections are no longer free and fair. A strong community will form a net to catch all these people when they finally do come around.

[-] Wes4Humanity@lemm.ee 4 points 6 days ago

We built a strong community for/with Bernie... While we had a mission and leadership we got things done too, but as soon as the campaign ended and there was no more guidance, the community basically disintegrated... Community needs a plan and a mission...a mutual goal to work towards as a team... Plan the strategy and pass out roles and people will get on board and join the "community"

[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 0 points 6 days ago

How the hell is the first step not changing how we vote so people can vote outside the two party system and still have their votes counted against republicans?

[-] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago

There's a lot of green between today and sweeping election reform that defeats the duopoly. It's certainly a step, but it requires many preceding steps to get to a point where that's achievable.

[-] Wes4Humanity@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago

Gotta get people into a position where they can make that change happen. Right now the Dems block such people from getting to such positions. Gotta replace the gate keepers with progressives or we'll never get progressives into position to make changes.

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