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[-] Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago
[-] Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com 41 points 4 days ago

Could they possibly sabotage their own progressives any harder? Eh, I'm sure they'll come up with something.

[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 28 points 4 days ago

At this point I think they'd run a republican before they ran anyone with an iota of progressive backbone.

[-] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 4 days ago

That's what they're been doing already

[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

most of the DNC are just DINOS, anyways. and rich dems are the same as the rich gop, they get the same donors, and t hey benefit from someone like trump in power.

[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 5 points 3 days ago

I'm not American, but I wonder if it isn't only a matter of "in name only" but that if the DNC only puts forward neoliberal candidates, maybe that's who they actually are as an organization.

Acknowledging that there are progressive members -- probably many, but if the

power structures of the org itself won't ever allow them to run a candidate…

[-] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 6 points 4 days ago

Hogg isn't a Progressive, he's just a dick riding opportunist.

[-] jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 4 days ago

And yet has more backbone than the entire dnc establishment

[-] ThorrJo@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 4 days ago

Dialectical truths 🥰

[-] M1ch431@slrpnk.net 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

How can one not be motivated to challenge the status quo and current administration? It's not working.

I don't really know this guy or his politics too well, but I think it's unfair to label him as an "opportunist".

Criticizing the Democratic Party for being complicit is seeming less like an accusation and more like fact.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

He wants to replace the current group of old, complicit, corrupt neoliberals with young, maybe(?) less complicit and corrupt ~~neoliberals. He does not want to replace them with progressives.~~

Edit: based on my browser history, I believe I formed the impression reading something in a Lemmy thread about a month ago probably related to this article, but I can't find it again so I'm just gonna say I must be wrong.

[-] M1ch431@slrpnk.net 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I guess every media outlet that I've looked at is reporting this wrong for saying he was backing young progressives. Even his website claims that. But I know Democrats love to tease at being progressives to appeal to voters, and then shift back to the right.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Hmm, ~~maybe~~ I've fallen for misinformation.

Edit: I can't find the thing that initially gave me the impression that David Hogg wasn't progressive, so I'm removing the "maybe."

[-] frostysauce@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago
[-] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

I can't find it, so I'm retracting the claim.

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