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This is the reason I’m switching from democrat to independent! These fucks are hardly better than republicans.
That's silly. Stay registered Democrat and primary those corporate shills right the fuck out. Install progressives and take over the party.
Depends on the state but many let independents choose which primary to vote in.
I mean, as far as I'm aware the only reason to be registered one way or the other is to be allowed to participate in closed primaries.
"Hardly better" ?
I'll gladly criticize the DNC and upper Democratic Party leadership all fucking day long, but I say this as a quasi anarchist / socialist-libertarian: they are fucking leagues better than the republicans who are racist and xenophobic to their core, stealing unimaginable amounts of money from everybody they can, are defending a goddamn cabal of child raping pedophiles, and are doing their fucking best to establish a fascist state.
"oH bUt hE dOeSnT lIkE uNiVeRsaL hEaLtHcArE!!" yea fuck him, but to compare that failure to people actively protecting child rapists? Fuck offfffffffff.
They're spoilers for actual socialist candidates. This is a dog and pony show.
They also have identical foreign policy. The genocide accelerated under Biden.
"if the democratic party collapsed the population of the usa would all vote psl/acp"
haha
I'll admit I left the US a few years ago, so I may be a little out of the loop but.. what fucking "actual socialist" candidates? Are there more than three yet?
No, we had one, last presidential election and Democrats sued and won to keep her off the swing state ballots.
One. My man, at the federal level there's 435 members of the House and 100 members of the Senate. At the state level there's 50 governors and 7,383 total legislative seats.
I don't think you can blame Democrats for being spoilers to "actual socialists" when "actual socialists" aren't on the damn menu.
According to Wikipedia there's 102 DSA-aligned (who are Democratic-Socialists and not "actual socialists") politicians at the federal and state level. Out of 7,968 seats. Barely over 1%.
So close and yet so far away.
I stay in the Democratic party simply so I can vote these assholes out with voting for their progressive challengers while donating and volunteering for them.
This is the way. It’s regrettable, but the only viable path forward short of outright revolution. Voting anything other than dem (or being a total fuckwit and not voting) effectively cements our fall to complete fascism.
But to your point. Progressives (such as they are here in the states) are the only hope to claw our way out of the hole neo-cons/neo-libs have thrown us into.
Didn't get me wrong, I'm a hair's breadth away from not voting for these Republican in Democrats veneer jackasses either.
A slow slide toward fascism is still sliding toward fascism and these worthless assholes are doing just that. I mean for fucks sake, there's Katie Hobbs running with a Republican right now.