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    I keep hearing how the new DNC Chair (whose name I only hear when people are telling me this) is doing things differently now and this is going to stop.

    OK new DNC Chair whose name is in the news so rarely I can never remember it, it hardly seems like there could be a more fertile opportunity to stop working against progressives, so any day now.

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        Somebody recently argued to me that his election was “fraudulent”. Interesting way to put it.

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          They went to court and successfully argued that they don’t have to follow their own rules.

          They selectively care about the rules when it suits them.

          Like how any excuse stopped them from enacting their campaign promises, but the Leahy law was completely meaningless when they wanted to keep selling weapons for the genocide they wanted.

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          It did violate the DNC’s own election rules, yes. The candidates were paired on the ballots in a way that disadvantaged female representation.

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            It did violate the DNC’s own election rules, yes.

            The unwritten one: “no one to the left of netanyahu”

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      Ken Martin has already neutered a notable progressive (David Hogg) by enforcing the neutrality of DNC officers in future primaries, while Hogg’s election to Vice Chair of the DNC was invalidated months after Hogg started making waves on the grounds of “gender diversity”.

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        by enforcing the neutrality of DNC officers in future primaries

        Yeah, like it’s not only gonna be for the one primary where they wanted to oust Hogg.

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      I assure you that the national committee had abso-fucking-lutely nothing to do with this city-chapter scandal.

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        I’m not convinced that’s true, but this is hardly the only example of such, in any case, not even the only recent example, and not even the most high profile recent example.

        coughCuomocough

        When it’s no longer a pattern, people will stop pointing it out.

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            You’re mad that Cuomo didn’t get the endorsement? Why?

            Um, no. And that feels fairly disingenuous since the progressive/leftist objections to Cuomo are pretty well known, and in particular his attacks on Mamdani and his support from establishment dems, and their corresponding attacks on Mamdani, even up to and including his declaration that it’s OK since maga can just get him in.

            So please come back when you’d like to engage in good faith. Thank you now!

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              Mamdani is the DNC candidate. The vast majority of state and federal DNC support Mamdani. I have not seen anybody endorse third party independent Cuomo since he lost the election and left the party.