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He’s the one who wanted to go hardball on Republicans and they couldn’t find anything to stick to him, as hard as they tried.
Dems can do worse and have done much worse.
Hopefully.
Walz seemed awesome in the debate. Vance and Walz in general were so much more productive than the other two.
Yeah, let's keep alive the existence of Walz's couple of misstatements, while ignoring the insane, senile nonsense that Trump spews on the hour. Fuck the media.
its march 4th. i say we stop voting for seniors over the retirement age.
I think 70 is a good cutoff age. Minimum age is 35, so having a maximum age makes sense. Same goes for Congress and Senate imo.
I think it’s important to work towards enabling more political parties between now and 2028. We need alternative voting systems like Alaska and Maine have, but in the other states as well. That is only really possibly through getting ballot initiatives passed in each state for something like STAR Voting, Ranked Robin Voting, Score Voting, or Ranked Choice Voting.
A different voting system enables us to move away from First Past the Post, which is what forces a two party system. By having this, there can be more smaller parties that more truly represent the values of each state that can work with the bigger parties. Plus, it opens up the door for the most liked candidates to not knock each other out over the least liked candidates when tallying the votes.
All that is needed in about half of the states is to get signatures to put ballot initiatives up for a vote. Through grassroots action we can make a meaningful difference, and get more politicians like Walz that actually care about us in office.
Thats not gonna happen in three years bro
Alaska has had two voting attempts to overturn RCV and will have another during the midterms. The MAGA wing has fought intensely against it and has the majority pull in the mostly red state. The major parties are doing their work to try to prevent alternative voting strategies and generally has the money and clout to do so. Grassroots movements have helped, but is difficult messaging for the average voter. In the last RCV run in Alaska spending was 10:1 towards RCV and it only narrowed out a 3pt margin. Maybe what's happening in DC bludgening federally-dependent state might shake things up, but if we're to believe media/social media trends about MAGA doubling down I won't hold my breath.
Democratic party needs to die. Controlled opposition that takes up energy from actual opposition.
“Graveyard of social movements”, 60’s radicals called it.
Bold of him to assume there will be elections in 2028.
It's cute that he thinks there will be an election in 2028, or ever again, for that matter.
When will the DNC pull their heads out of their asses? If they won’t put forth any serious candidates, why bother?
Give me AOC or Bernie.
Bernie's going to be almost 90 years old by then
biden is no longer in office, so age can be a problem again.
I like adding AOC to the ticket. But getting through primaries may pit them against each other; their bases, at least.
I think it would actually be very easy to unite their bases. At a certain point we're going to have to acknowledge that progressive populism is appealing to every demographic apart from evangelicals, xenophobes, and 3%ers. Midwesterners who like Walz may be more religious and worse LGBTQ+ allies, but fundamentally people want someone who is going to even the playing field for workers and that's something that both groups would appreciate. A large amount of any campaign is going to have to be education about the benefits of unions, public projects, and being a member of your community rather than a shut-in if they want to generate positive buzz. Negative buzz is easy, just call the fascists weak and gross.
Please fucking God no. It's like they actually want Republicans to win.
He was the better half of the ticket.
while this is true, it would still be a total loss to run him
How so?
I'm worried that despite having very good views himself that he is going to be tainted by the past. Not without reason too, because the consultants made him stand down with the "weird" insult and progressive messaging. Like most of these people, if it's not their authentic campaign, then whose is it? He's demonstrated, like most people who reach a moment in their career to seriously consider this, that he's too malleable for populist politics. It's possible that he completely sheds that team and runs his own, but who here really thinks that's going to happen? I'd believe it if we had AOC for VP. The pressure to succumb to inferior messaging is higher than it'll ever be during a presidential campaign, I don't really trust anyone to stay firm except AOC, Talib, and Bernie because they have demonstrated resistance in this sort of high pressure consultant environment.
Personally, I'm hoping Zelensky will run for US president after strong Dien in Ukraine. You might be thinking that someone from another country can't be president. Well.... looks at current situation in White House At least this one would be elected.
he should. he was a great pick and far more left than america deserved. he and aoc would be great as a ticket.
Kamala as VP?
I'd vote for him but he'd need to ignore the consultants next time if he wants any hope of winning.
Oh, so we're cool with losing again? He's not going to swing any demographic group - it's gonna be the same result.
He doesn't need to swing any voters. He just has to not be a woman
I disagree. One of the largest groups to swing right were young men, and if you listened to many of their criticisms, they thought Tim was pandering to them which made them think he was disingenuous. If he tries to flip it in the next campaign, he'll seem even less authentic. If he doesn't, we're at status quo. I don't see that being different for any dem candidate, regardless of gender, without a change in approach.
I'm not saying their criticisms are right or wrong, but they are voters. Whether we like it or not, we need to listen to them b/c of that fact.
Even if the candidate was a woman, a genuine attempt to engage with them and find common ground would likely have a better chance at swinging enough of them than if we stick to Tim. However, knowing how people respond to being slighted and pandered to, I'm unsure there's much of a chance to reach them anymore. But it would still be a better chance if we engaged with them rather than ignoring them.
Hopefully this time they don't muzzle him. Tim's a great example of dem policies working,
Using the military against protestors is indeed a dem policy but I don't think it worked.
Tim Walz unleashed would have won this.
He was hamstrug by Harris. He’s likely the dem’s best choice for 2028.
So of course they’ll run Newsome or Shapiro or Hillary Clinton again because they’re a bunch of idiots.
"Run for president in 2028" XD That ship has sailed. I don't think they will have any more elections.
The Harris campaign had to cover the governor’s tracks when he tripped up during a California fundraiser by stating that the constitutionally-mandated system used to select the president, otherwise known as the electoral college, “needs to go”.
How the hell is that a gaffe? It's both the truth and exactly what people want to hear. Any lib who thinks like that needs to kindly keep their mouths shut for the next four years. This country needs radical change, the only choice you get is which one you want.