The last president – Obama – that the DNC really wasn’t at all involved with was still somehow not very progressive.

Yeah these are things that “centrists” can oppose…talking to your neighbors, going to council meetings, joining a union, starting a poker game, or joining a social group. /s

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I mean hell start a podcast even. There’s literally no place I even know of in my town to build any of this so-called solidarity keyboard leftists talk about as if it’s ubiquitous. I live in a top ten city in one of the most left-leaning states and all I see is “let’s go Brandon” bumper stickers and maga stickers plastered on the backside of my street signs.

Maybe, just maybe, online leftists are full of it and America isn’t on the brink of some great socialist revolution. But who am I kidding, it’s inevitable, right guys? It springs up automatically out of the dirt like dandelions. /s

WTF is with people on this site and the DNC?

I think that’s partially why the well connected and famous billionaires are such miserable assholes. Their lives really aren’t that great because they’re all uninteresting losers surrounded by uninteresting losers who sold their souls for money and power and spend decades between having any moments of real joy.

I hate MTG but lately I’ve agreed with her twice:

• I want a national divorce from red states
• Release all of the ethics reports

What are you even talking about?

Enjoy trying to get money out of politics through magic.

Maybe with the people you spend time with.

If you’re spending your time with a large amount of civically involved, mutual-aid-providing people in America, you’re actually in the minority.

EDIT: Not sure why you’re talking about the 60s like everyone was hippies…

EDIT: Because I’m talking about statistical measures of things. Not feels and vibes like you’re thinking. It’s a well-studied subject, but I know nobody believes in reading or studying anymore.

We have that…

We absolutely do not have that. We have a couch-dwelling population that hasn’t been civically engaged in a meaningful way in fifty years and running. Social capital has atrophied since the 60s by every discernible metric.

Until we get dirty money out of at least the primaries and an actually non biased DNC, it’s not voters deciding.

You aren’t getting “dirty money” out of politics from your couch or by making a post about it on Lemmy.

I show up to vote progressive during party primaries and you and yours leave me lonely at the polls. In some states, such as my state of California, we have jungle primaries. The “DNC” certainly didn’t force the general contest for CA senator to be Schiff versus a Republican…the voters did.

Everyone talks a big game online about how popular leftism is, but I have yet to see it where it actually counts: at the fucking polls.

Why the fuck are you still blaming voters?

Because that’s who chooses the leaders.

I vote in primaries; a lot of you online progressives aren’t there voting with me. I voted for Katie Porter for senator in California, but the managerial class that actually shows up to vote wanted Schiff and so they got him.

EDIT: I find it hilarious that people advocating against showing up to vote in every other case always show up to downvote my comments.

AOC and the squad got in there. Some of them got voted out during primaries because progressives were no shows. If progressives can’t show up to vote during primaries, I don’t know how we’re expected to take a general election.

We need to build an actual movement.

We need to rebuild social capital. FDR didn’t just happen by himself, he had a backing of growing labor movement, and a much more community-oriented, civically-involved America.

Yep and as per usual everyone in the media and in big tech that helped misinform all the voters will say “oh it’s so weird that such and such a group moved to Trump” as if they had nothing at all to do with it.

The algorithm doesn’t really send you down the helpful rabbit holes in my experience. Every reasonable video on YouTube is like two away from Infowars level content.

I’m already sick of this style of headline. Anyone else?

Just the headline for most things, especially now.

I read the whole shit more or less for 9 years, most others didn’t even read the headline and just thought it was fake news. It did me no good to be so hyper-informed. Why should I continue what I was doing when being hyper-informed about Trump just gave me more Trump? I’m good. I’ll read whole articles if it matters. For “Gaetz for AG” it doesn’t matter.

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What he is proposing is something far more stupid akin to “Well look at me. I’ve never needed these drugs, and I’m totally fine. WTF, people?”

Except he looks like a reanimated corpse and sounds like a frog that died on a log in a bog.

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