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Trump threatens to block ExxonMobil from Venezuela after CEO calls country ‘uninvestable’
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Well said. The establishment learned nothing.
Maybe the mold will be broken I suspect false vote rigging indictments coming on dems fall 2027 in the lead up to the presidential election.
Might be able to retake it in the succession fight, but not with newsome running as status quo. Even if they did squeak a win past r cheating, denial, they would do nothing with it, be unpopular, hand it right back.
As if keeping things from getting as bad was acceptable, we need a New Deal.
Either we give it to them, or fake populist fascists will.
i do allow myself a smidge of optimism, with mamdani winning NYC's mayoral election.
if an open and honest socialist can win major seat in the most crooked/establishment heart of america, then progressives can win any seat in the country.
Mamdami is absolutely a template for how progressives can win nation wide. But the key is to treat it is as a toolkit, not something to be copy-and-pasted exactly. Mamdami wouldn't win in, say, Idaho, but there are people who can. They just have to keep hammering on the shit that matters to the average voter.
Biden and Kamala sank because they promised to keep doing exactly the same shit they'd been doing for the last four years, while refusing to acknowledge how much worse the average person's quality of life had gotten over the last four years. Mamdami won because he focused, hard on cost of living issues. Make that your core message and people will flock to you. Healthcare and groceries. That's what it's all about right now.
Not just progressive, we need reform candidates of all types, to fit their districts, cooperating in agreement on working people not getting screwed by the rich without consent.
And a citizenry organized on our own forums, maybe a Federated thing, where we can cooperate know what we agree on and organize into public and private groups to that effect, finding and grooming candidates that are not sold out cunts being one of those things we agree
i mean...there is no center in the US, all reform is "left" at this point i think. anyone running on a platform of "i want to actually spend your $ on something useful, instead of ratfucking it" is progressive in the US, that's how far the overton window has shifted to the right
The sentiment is widespread amongst conservatives as well however. We actually agree on a lot with a lot of of these people. And out and out Progressive will not be able to win rural Nebraska or whatever, but a different flavor of reformer could. And we could all agree but the rich should not be allowed to take our hard-earned freedoms and lower our quality of life, or dump their toxic byproducts in the ditch and poison us all. The rich captured both conservative and liberal parties.