The progressives need to reject the liberals
this post was submitted on 14 Feb 2025
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The progressives need to reject the liberals that won't get out of the way, at least.
Even Newsweek has figured it out, too bad the D Party leadership is still puttering about.
Didn't the Democrats already have Occupy Wall Street?
Didn't it get marginalized by the establishment just like the tea party?
Occupy Wall Street was a disorganized mess. It really didn’t have much to do with the dems either.
Obama did collaborate with corporations, the banks, and local police forces in forming a national task force to crush OWS, often in violation of the 1st and 4th Amendments, but OWS was more a howl of economic rage, and I don't recall any efforts to take over the Democratic Party.
That had little to do with democrats
Hard pass. They’d probably make the tea in a microwave or something.
A liberal Tea Party would probably be about as effective as an actual tea party.
I'm not sure that the Tea Party failed. I think they dropped the overt name, started calling themselves "Republicans", and that MAGA is the ultimate result.
The current MAGA Republican party is the Tea Party.
Yeah the Tea Party is exactly what we want to emulate, we should be copying their playbook one to one. They showed that it is very possible for a motivated minority to cannibalize an existing political party.
If MAGA is right about one thing, it's that the neocon/neolib alliance is a crooked grift that must be destroyed.
The article conflates liberal and progressive, but it really is talking about a progressive tea party.
The liberal tea party was basically the Occupy movement, which...fell apart because there wasn't really any agreement on what Occupy actually wanted.
and many right wing grifters began thier origins in the occupy movement too.
"Lack of urgency" - I mean, they control zero houses of congress or branches of government, so what exactly is expected from them? I actually think it would be a mistake to blow their load by raising the alarm too early. You can't make every single thing trump does require an urgent response. He's gonna do worse. Pick your battles.
Not that I don't think the Dems haven't had massive problems of leadership, but most of it seems to come down to "leftists, progressives, and liberals all kind of hate each other but they all need to vote the same way to keep Republicans out of power." Coalition parties are hard and forming a new viable party is nearly impossible. Or at least I think so, prove me wrong.
Throw every legal curveball. Slow or stop the machine. Arrange demonstrations and organization.
Mostly all I’ve seen so far is dems using this crisis to fundraise. It’s gross.