He's right. Establishment dems have shown themselves repeatedly to not be capable of opposing a fascist agenda, and recent elections have shown that its not even the safe bet anymore. An establishment candidate is just doom at this point, might as well vote 3rd party and have a tiny shot
Progressives lost to AIPAC funded candidates. So they have proven themselves repeatedly to not be capable of opposing a fascist agenda.
Without the Democratic Party there would be no progressive party. There aren’t enough progressive voters or candidates.
This is the same mistake progressives have made year after year. They are tricked into throwing away their vote and as a result the government slides further right.
They pretend like they can win nation wide by cherry picking examples of progressives like Mamdani or Bernie winning in blue states as if that reflects how the rest of the country votes. It does not.
This is used to trick them into thinking they can win without the support of the rest of the voters that aren’t leftists. They cannot as proven by election results.
In reality, progressives only have enough numbers to tip the scales in favor of the GOP by not voting. The majority of voters are centrists or right wing. And for some stupid reason, leftists think they can change the leadership in a democracy by ignoring what centrists want.
Not at all. Democrats literally did not hold a primary in 2024 because the establishment would be crushed by non establishment candidates and they knew it.
What is going on? Do you want change? Well establishment dems showed thier belly and don't care to fight trump. Hasan is right. A third party socialist "im gonna prosecute the previous administration" candidate. Is infinitly better than the jackass establishment democrats we have now
O you wanna vote for Gavin Newsome because he "owned trump on twitter" give me a fucking break.
wanna vote for Gavin Newsome because he "owned trump on twitter" give me a fucking break.
Not even him, his pr people
If your reaction to this is outrage, you're politically juvenile. It's early 2026, this is exactly the time to be doing this kind of politics. If you already now signal to the Democratic Party establishment your capitulation, why should your concerns even be taken into account. Piker is putting the gun on the table at exactly the right time. Grow up.
I forgot that this is still a Lemmy.world community where somehow it is never the right time to try and get the Democratic party to try or care to earn their votes.
Always to close to an election or to far from one, or not worth it to make them fear for their win instead of blind support.
We can't try something new because what we have been trying doesnt work and we have to make it work before we are allowed to change strategy.
What an insane take.
It is interesting that Democrats are already in Blue MAGA mode while we are still 2 years away from the election. Last time they pretended to care about Dems running a non corrupt candidate up until 6 months before the election.
Jill Stein send her regards. You'll expect to hear from her again in the next election.
Jill Stein has aged like fine wine. Still on the right side about almost everything. But we do not hear any media talking about what she says anymore because the Blue MAGA narrative is that she appears out of thin air after four years and that must remain intact.
Nobody's talking about what she says because she has an incosequentially small audience and does nothing to build it up.
She should sell out to large donors so she can buy ads like the Democrats then you will like her.
Whaaaa my preferred candidate is unpopular and it's everyone else's fault
But your favourite candidate also lost but it's not her fault according to you, it is everybody else fault. See how hypocritical you are?
Because he is a Trump supporter
Big brain analysis right here. Libs really just want to keep repeating the past instead of actually fixing the problem.
You’re right, allowing Trump to take over then end elections and put a resort on Gaza beach was the real big brain move.
How will giving Republicans another term fix any problem?
The Democrats will learn that they will not win unless fulfill voters demands beyond "not Republicans".
Oh yeah. I forgot about 3rd parties. Everyone arguing to vote for them have since stopped caring I guess.
Until there is a loud, constant demand from a broad base that persists well beyond voting periods this 3rd party BS is just 2 parties trying to waste your vote. I want 3rd parties to come in and give the establishment competition. We'll never see it happen at this rate.
I'm not opposed to it, but unless he (or others) can get a mass movement behind a third party candidate and we still don't have rank choice, I'm probably voting for the ticket that is least likely to give Republicans power.
Those things will not happen so the only leverage you have against Democrats is demanding them to fulfill your demands in exchange for your vote.
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