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Bruised Democrats weigh how to win back voters, and regain power: ‘We’ve got to fight’
(www.theguardian.com)
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@tburkhol @MicroWave
My question for you is why do you think they don't produce decent candidates and if you don't think their candidates are decent why can't you find a progressive alternative?
I find progressive candidates all the time. They just don't run on Dem tickets and never will. Last election I voted for Claudia De La Cruz in my solid red state cause it's not like any Dem candidate could win anyway. If the Dems put up someone like her that had the exact same platform as her and not being willing to play the compromise game with fascists and fascist lite people, then I'd vote for them.
@Ryanmiller70
Great glad you live in the rare area where progressives actually run for office. 90% of the population doesn't. Play the fascist game like Mamdani?
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/new-york-playbook-pm/2026/05/04/mamdani-nypd-actions-ice-protest-00905703
@Ryanmiller70
De la Cruz received 167,772 votes (0.11%) for president. I find the only winners with these kinds of campaigns are the fascists as they steal votes from people who actually have a chance to beat the fascist Nazis.
I suspect you're not one of the people being held in an ICE detention center now or one of the 14 million people projected to die because of Trump's U.S. aid cuts nor do you care about them because they're poor black and African.
You mean the same Ice that went unchecked during both Obama and Biden's terms? When they could have destroyed them?
@Ryanmiller70
Yes that was the same ICE let's all pretend to live in your delusional world where that is true. Don't get me wrong ICE should have been destroyed years ago, but that was not this ICE.