cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45996578
Democratic members of Congress know they have an age problem—and it’s hurting them.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45996578
Democratic members of Congress know they have an age problem—and it’s hurting them.
What’s been keeping them in office the last couple decades was a corrupt DNC that would blackball individuals/companies that worked to challenge incumbents, even going so far to bankrupt whole state parties to punish reps who didn’t toe the party line
That’s over, it’s been over. Current DNC has been dumping that money that was hoarded back to state parties, so they can’t use it as a club later.
And Martin ran Minnesota for a decade, he’s never endorsed a candidate before the primary, never put fingers on the scales, and the result was the state going from purple to progressive insanely quickly.
Some state parties are still shitty, but these coming elections are the best chance we’ve had since the 90s to get new blood in.
No matter what happens, we need to get people to vote in upcoming Dem primaries
So, I want to make sure I am informed and involved. What is the best source of information for democratic primary candidates, and where can I verify how and when I can vote?
Primaries don’t mean shit when the DNC puts their thumbs on the scale to make sure candidates like Bernie lose the nomination. The problem is at least in part the DNC itself
This person regularly claims that Ken Martin’s leadership position heralds the end of that era. There’s nuance here and I don’t think we actually have clarity yet.
For example, the DNC very recently voted against banning AIPAC money in their primary elections. To be fair, they opted instead for a broad resolution condemning dark money…but that doesn’t actually prevent AIPAC from flooding primary elections with cash to tip the scales. It also doesn’t necessarily prevent dark money contributions either.
So, to me this signals nothing has changed at all. Typical weak sauce Dems, trying to get away with saying the bare minimum and actually doing nothing. I’m cynical of the party’s ability to do anything other than play identity politics pattycakes while serving the rich and Israel, and expect the same old tricks to either ratfuck or completely cancel primaries in favor of anointed reps who work for Israel above America. Consider the fact that they’re already applying massive pressure to prevent anyone from attempting to primary Schumer, one of the worst offenders of this type of treason and frankly looking quite likely to die in office as well.
Time will tell, but don’t get too optimistic…
It wasn’t even a ban just a symbolic vote to say “hey maybe we shouldn’t be taking money from Nazis” and they still voted against it.
Agreed this user repeats this same information in most of their comments, but we havent seen any actual change in candidates or policy. This is the same man that also said the DNC is going to prioritize winning elections over all else which means ideology is officially taking a backseat to telling voters what they want to hear. We saw that in the 2024 elections with Harris taking a hard stance against immigration and the poor, while pushing pro-corporate, pro-police, and pro-Israel rhetoric in addition to touring around with Dick fucking Cheney because they though that is what the voters wanted to hear and that is what would secure them a win. We all saw how that turned out. We’re going to see a lot more of it.
Still waiting anything to happen that will prove it’s changed with him as chair. What’s sad is givesomefucks also cheers on anything the dnc does as an example of it changing.
I think you missed that…
The problem is you think 2016 DNC has anything to do with 2026 DNC…
Acting like it does, just makes everyone aware of your ignorance of our political system.
I’d try explaining it, but we saw how well that went last time
The 2016 DNC is the same as the 2020 DNC and the 2024 DNC. If you think the DNC has changed because one guy got moved into a new role, you’ll need to back that up with actual receipts not just empty rhetoric and future promises.