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Probably because the solution would be easy, but would lose them AIPAC bribes.
Because they don't intend to change anything and they don't want to get called out on repeating the same exact mistakes.
I agree with all these comments that it has something to do with AIPAC (get the fuck out of America and all money in politics.) Anyone who takes money from AIPAC can fuck off. That shit they pulled with Kat was disgusting. They are pure evil.
"We successfully failed to win. The AIPAC money must keep coming in."
It rhymes and they're slime.
..bb-bUt look at everything but Democrats did win. Donor money, trips to Israel, lobbying dinners, suspiciously-accurate stock market moves... You need to re-shape your mindset and focus on the incremental gains!
The Democratic Party isn’t there to “win”, it’s there to act as a honeypot to attract and neutralize progressives, and to make sure that the “Overton Window” of American politics never moves left.
Many Americans are aware of the Ratchet Effect but they’re reluctant to acknowledge that it’s deliberate and coordinated, instead asserting that it’s a function of the “donor class” in the Democratic Party having a different perspective on how political priorities should be assigned.
It's irrelevant if it's coordinated or not. Alignment of interests gives the same results as overt conspiracy.
TLDR: Because they don't give a fuck about you or me or anyone who isn't a donor.
Repubs want to hurt you. Dems don't care that you exist. We need a third party (as if that's a new idea).
Quick: who's got Mayor Mamdani on their team? THOSE guys seem to care about people.
The guys who refused to endorse him.
Quick: who’s got Mayor Mamdani on their team? THOSE guys seem to car about people.
The political equivalent of having a black friend just dropped.
Stop fucking talking about 3rd party, that's throwing your vote away.
Besides, the tea party proved you don't need another party, simply primary and take over one of the main ones.
Progressives have already started, we need to keep the energy going.
More Mandani's less Schumers and we'll get what we want.
Pretty obvious to anyone who observed it:
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Biden held on too long making it impossible to run a proper primary.
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Harris wasn't allowed to differentiate herself from Biden.
Time of Death: October 8th, 2024:
- people dont like unwaivering support for genocidal Israel
It's gotta be either this or evidence that the base is further left than they thought and moderating to the right was a dogshit strategy. Nothing else seems like it's threatening enough to the establishment to warrant burying the report. Though if I was gonna bet, I'd be putting it on support for Israel.
- People are beginning to wake up that good/bad cop is still slave patrol for the empire.
I felt like she had so much traction in the beginning, and with Walz coming in on board and really hitting the MAGA in the stomach with their comebacks.
But then suddenly they just stopped, and MAGA was able to reposition and gain the upper hand for the remainder of the season.
So yeah, shit themselves in the foot a few months before the end. Such a shame, I think they would’ve ok.
I distinctly remember when they told Walz to stop calling out how weird the Elon/Vance/Trump crew all were. It was working and I couldn't understand why stop. Some wormtongue consultant or PAC? It was baffling
Many people point to the influence that Uber exec and Kamala-brother-in-law Tony West had on the campaign.
His pro-corporate policies helped Kamala raise a billion dollars, but accepting that corporate money is a deal with the devil: it shifted her policy proposals and rhetoric significantly to the right.
Yeah, I don't know if it's just the same Democrat consultants every presidential election, but the last three elections they've always, always reverted to, "The election is three months away but you've already won, so for the love of god don't do anything inspiring to our base because that might upset Republicans and make them attack us more. In fact, just put all your energy into getting Republican votes."
But then suddenly they just stopped, and MAGA was able to reposition and gain the upper hand for the remainder of the season.
Don't forget cozying up to Republicans. I think they took the campaign to the right because of some crazy idea that they needed to try for getting Republican votes. They stopped punching maga in the nose out of a misguided idea that they might steal some R votes from Trump.
And having no primaries turned off a lot of people. It’s like he died and she was sworn into office, except he didn’t actually die and she never took office.
Why? Because their candidates were a couple of corporate stooges who licked Israel's butthole.
Neither one showed any humanity or concern for the working class.
Meanwhile trump convinced the common man he was on their side and would lower prices. It was all a lie of course. But the democrats couldn't even be bothered to do that.
The whole campaign was "we aren't trump". But offered not solutions at all, just tired platitudes and insincere posturing from a women who had all the empathy of a cold ham.
The DNC needs to stop seeing people as demographics. They were so over the moon to have a black asian female candidate that they overlooked the fact no one actually wants a career prosecutor with political ambitions who stands for nothing. She waved her little $4000 tax credit in the wind for about five minutes and lost. What autopsy do we even need to see?
Just reading the headline reminded me of how disgusting the amount of money in US politics is. It's probably spreading to other places too.
Im beginning to think there is a parallel of hyper concentrated wealth to the physics of a fusion detonation.
If it gets too dense, BOOM.
Because it’s owned by Israel
We all know the reason. It condemns their own shit neoliberal policies and posturing, and they want to continue to pretend that their problem is how they sell the snake oil rather the fact that nobody wants fucking snake oil.
So far the only reason that they would want to keep this a secret is AIPAC.
I am at least partially heartened to see the people on here knowing what the fuck is up. I mean six comments deep I agree with everyone, the democratic party is controlled opposition, long since captured by the oligarchy.
Fighting under their Banner, without seizing control of the party, is doomed to fail, and would not produce satisfactory results even if it won.
We could take the party from them. Our policies, our ideas, are actually popular we just lack leadership and organization.
"Her “signaling” is evidently an effort to disassociate herself from the taint of Martin’s unpopular decision without openly opposing it"
Another principled, very clear, stand from Kamala where she is not trying to please both parties by tying her statements into word salads.
Because political parties have their own agenda that isn’t simply what voters want.
This one’s analysis shows them in a poor light for picking a candidate that they knew would probably cut it close or lose, rather than a candidate that would be elected with populist / democratic socialist leanings. Probably anyway. How would we ever know, even if they released a report? They never tell the public how the sausage is really made.