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[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (18 children)

Slotkin is the new Sinema and can GFY, but there is a component to this that does deserve some discussion.

If you look back on the past 10 years of the Democrats climbing hills for issues, I think it's out of sync with the majority of people. The staunch fight for identity politics is not what people seem to want or need right now, and they need to understand that. Maybe there was a time when this was what their constituents wanted, but no longer.

Now they need to be really fucking strong on fighting the billionaires, pushing back against the front to vast majority of the country that has no wealth, and finding ways to make that flip around so that the wealthy who are imposing the enshitification of the lower and middle class are held accountable for doing so.

Forget the current struggles we're forced to dread living through, and give people a clear plan and the hope that you'll actually be attacking these things when elected. Seems pretty simple.

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[–] Roopappy@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

I know how she can test her theory.

Run a primary opponent against her who feels differently. Let the market decide.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 10 points 2 days ago

This is the DINO that went on after HitlerPig's SOTU and tried to sell the absurd concept that millions of people voted straight Democratic tickets, except for HitlerPig at the top.

Sure, there were probably some dummies rhat did that, but they're as rare as white squirrels. She's just the water carrier for the same old weak, spineless weenie Dems who are perfectly happy being smug about their "peaceful transfer of power" to Nazis who obviously rigged the election.

[–] Nualkris@lemm.ee 9 points 2 days ago

Fuck that! I want my progressive cadidates woke AF!

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

“Everyone you mentioned has a lot of words, but what have they actually done to change the situation with Donald Trump and the cuts and the attacks on our judiciary and the attacks on our Constitution?” asked Slotkin, who claimed her responsibilities fighting Trump’s government cuts forced her “to be more than just an AOC.”

Fair.

“I can’t do what she does because we live in a purple state, and I’m a pragmatist,” she concluded.

🙄

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[–] Sibshops@lemm.ee 10 points 2 days ago

Well, I'm just going to go extra woke, now. Go woke or go broke.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 3 points 2 days ago

Fuck that noise. Geronocrats and Turdpublicans brought us here. Both need to be removed from any meaningful position in society.

Lmao fuck that and fuck you, Slotkin.

[–] BrokenGlepnir@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

You will not win running on a Republican platform,but half baked. That's what we have been shown. I will support the lesser evil, but no one else will. Harris never really attacked the rich. Who are you going to elect? "Immigrants are the problem but hey guys let's not be too hasty" or "IMMIGRANTS ARR The PROBLEM! KILLKILLKILL". I don't like either, but you both identify the same people (wrongly) as the main problem in society, and then they offer a (mosterous but still concrete) solution, while you offer nothing.

[–] Wilco@lemm.ee 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Can you tell us you have been purchased by the oligarchy without telling us?

End "woke"? So let Republicans shred all DEI? That's not just trans/gay, it's anti racial discrimination, it is help and protection for the disabled ... hell, it is the very laws that make ramps and elevators required for the disabled.

Yes, I might be talked into agreeing that democrats have to tone down "the message" so Republicans cannot use it as a hate rallying cry ... but the goals are still there. The evil fascist stuff this admin has done must be reversed, and these people all need to be in jail for insider trading by ping-ponging the economy.

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[–] Rodneyck@lemm.ee 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

My favorite part was focusing on Trump taking away democracy. Putting Kamala forward, a candidate no one wanted, voted for, or liked. Protecting DuMOcRAsy!

[–] RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Support working class people and idealism. THAT Is what the dems need to do, win over the middle\right folks that can't stand the MAGA shit and want their real country back, not some perverted fucked up version the GOP would like to create.

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