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Good cop and bad cop, but both cops. Build an opposing faction within the DNC that refuses to cooperate with establishment dems. Take the party over.
Yep, it's like having one manager at work who is really cool, and makes it easier to work, and another manager is a screaming tyrant who makes every moment at work horrific.
We'd all rather work for the nice boss, but make no mistake, they both have the same corporate objectives, just different ways of accomplishing it.
Both parties are just lackeys for the Sociopathic Oligarchs.
This wouldn't work, the establishment has too many systems in place that would prevent this. We need to think outside of the system.
The entire election system prevents third parties. MAGA took over the gop so it can absolutely happen. They aren't all genius political actors they are fallible, have vulnerabilities and can be out maneuvered by a large enough politically active base.
Yes, that's why I said you need to think outside the system. You cannot reform the Democrats, and you cannot reform the US electoral system. Revolution is absolutely mandatory for people to live free.
The difference is that MAGA isnt a threat to the status quo, if anything they are reinforcing the systems to protect it
Yes it was. Status quo wasn't fascism with Trump a dictator.
The status quo is fascism
No it isn't. Where are you getting that from?
Cancel the dnc and rnc.
Reform is a surefire failure
Then explain MAGA taking over the GOP. If the status quo can't change, how could it change for them? This defeatism is useless and projection of your own sense of powerlessness.
They are reinforcing the systems that protect the status quo
What's happening isn't the status quo.
Yes it is, the only thing that's changed is the mechanisms defending it.
No it isn't, that's an absurd claim.
Unlike the Democrats, the GOP didn't have a superdelegate system in 2016. If they had such a system, Jeb Bush would've won the primary.
So its possible.