• kreskin@lemmy.world
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      9 hours ago

      The website looks promising on first read, but digging into the founder, Cherny:

      “as well as an alum of the corporate-funded Democratic Leadership Council, which was maybe best known for its enthusiasm for privatizing Social Security. Cherny first showed up on Clinton’s radar as a Harvard senior, when he wrote that the United States needed “government humble enough not to try to solve all our problems for us but strong enough to give us the tools to solve our problems for ourselves.” Clinton loved the line so much, he made his entire Cabinet read it, put it in one of his speeches, and hired Cherny as a speechwriter. He was a perfect fit for an administration that had embarked on its own Democratic version of Trump’s DOGE initiative, called “Reinventing Government,” which boasted of firing three hundred fifty-one thousand federal workers and eliminating hundreds of thousands of pages of rules and regulations.”

      And of course, Chernys previous company was investigated for many instances of fraud and his cofounder put in prison. He sounds swell. So its just another shell game pretending to be progressive. Also, very conspicuously taking no stand on Israel, the biggest issue that lost the centrists base voters in the last vote. Just an issue that doesnt exist to them evidently. Heres a Jacobin article on it https://archive.ph/WVrTc#selection-881.366-905.132