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Democrats Aim to Make GOP Pay as 'Angry' Voters See Health Insurance Premiums Soar
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How about before we get to that point you pick a candidate you DO support and boost them so they BECOME the candidate instead of passively waiting for whoever floats to the top of the bog?
Primary turnout is 20-30% generally. You want more progressive candidates? Encourage them and then go vote for them in primaries. Bring friends.
It's what mamdani did and it worked.
Yep. Now is the time! Not later this year. Not 6 days before the election. Right god damned now. Right up until the candidate is chosen. Then it'll be time again the fucking second the election is over.
So do something, right god damned now, and practise as you preach. Use your comment to namedrop your pick and why they’re your pick.
I’m just acting on your username and basing this info on Texas. It’s not my state, not even my country, but it takes minutes to find out that Jasmine Crockett and James Talarico are running for the Democratic senator candidate, that Crockett is an AIPAC shill who has rejected the label “progressive” and Talarico is pro-healthcare reform and critical of Israel and Christian nationalism. I’m sure with a few more minutes you could find their voting records, just like I can for my local representatives in my country.
Who is the person that you want as your candidate in March and why?
That's a fair call out! I talked shit and didn't back it up.
It's no contest. Talarico is the more progressive of the two. I'm glad Allred dropped out because he's milquetoast. Crockett is proud of being a corporate Democrat. Talarico has called what Israel is doing atrocities and war crimes. He's headed in the correct direction on healthcare even if I disagree on the nuances. He's vocal about the billionaire donor issue. My biggest beef is how much of his platform is based on being a Christian, but that's a strength here whether I like it or not. And to be fair he calls out the people using the religion to be racist jackasses so, unlike a lot of the cowards, he is trying to clean house.
If Crockett is the nominee I'll vote for her. But unless and until then Talarico gets my money, attention, and time.
Yeah, I’m sorry that yours happened to be the comment I jumped on. In fact I’ve been ruminating on this sentiment for a while now. I think that voters on the left in general, myself included, need a fundamental shift in our voting mentality and how we prioritise events in the election cycle.
The battle for us is making sure that a desirable candidate is on the ballot paper on November 3rd. In that respect, the big midterm election for us is March 3rd. We need to be rounding up and riling up as many left wing voters as possible in time for March 3rd so that the choice in November isn’t between political apathy and a status quo corporate democrat.
Don't be sorry buddy. You're not wrong. I'd much rather someone be brusk and call me out correctly than polite and poisonous or doomer who insists that everything will always suck no matter what and try to turn us all against each other with purity tests.
Consider me properly and fairly called out. And consider me on your side.