Congratulation to Melat Kiros, this just proves what I've so often claimed here on Lemmy.
That the best bet for change, is to become a member of the Democratic party, and help change it from within.
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If only more young people saw this reality rather than the moronic:
"DEMS BAD! LET DEMS LOSE TO FASCIST TO TEACH DEMS LESSON! OH WAIT, WHY ARE WE NOW COMMITTING 500 MORE GENOCIDES AND NO LONGER HAVE FAIR ELECTIONS?"
Losing affordable healthcare, and funneling even more wealth to the 1%, while making the economy worse both for working people and the country.
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The best bet for change is to run a democratic socialist platform with the local DSA community
Running as independent may be advantageous in some races
At least while FPTP is still the main system of election in the US.
Yes, and Republicans will do absolutely zero to change that, because abusing the system is one of their main strategies.
And old school Democrats won't change it either for some reason, despite calling themselves democrats.
So it's a long process of first changing the Democratic party from within, and then hopefully get the power to modernize democracy in USA.
https://www.vote.nyc/RankedChoiceVoting
New York City, long a Dem stronghold, has implemented ranked choice voting.
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The company that fired her is now sweating that she'll be their Congressional Rep. I don't advocate for her to retaliate, that's MAGA nonsense, but I'd definitely let them know that I'm watching them.
Unless I knew about any nefarious dealings they may be up to, then I'd use my new power to send the attack dogs after them. Karma is what you get for being scum.
oh yeah. i once got constructively dismissed at an accounting firm because i wasn't willing to help them commit fraud. the eeoc payment was nice, but what was better was getting their licensure yanked.
A guy at my last job had a major, fundamental misunderstanding of how the local building code was updated annually. He, and the partner who said I was wrong for “insubordination” when I refused to do the work using outdated codes, ended up in front of the professional engineers board and had to formally make a plan to show how they would never make that mistake again. It wasn’t exactly license revoking, but it felt great to have started that process haha
The best part was that I know the firm’s code nerd was spoken to to tell me I was wrong and they sent out a company wide notice about making sure your code was updated. No one ever apologized to me. I only submitted the report after they let me go for “not being a good fit”.
The #1 rule of not getting caught doing crime is don't do 2 crimes at once. The in #2 rule is don't makes enemies of people that know where the bodies are buried. Sounds like you worked for idiots.
Not retaliating is how we got here. Either the next wave causes a red holocaust or you'll be ratcheted back the other way again.
No. The socialist movement is not growing.
The democratic socialist movement is growing.
I'll leave you with my standard disclaimer:
Socialism refers to collective ownership of the means of production. Social democracy refers to a capitalist market economy supplemented by welfare programs, labor protections, and public services. The two terms are not interchangeable despite frequent misuse on the internet. You are describing and advocating for social democracy not socialism.
Dem soc =/= Soc dem
Democratic socialists are socialists, social democrats are not.
In a sense yes. Both Burnie and AOC describ themselves as democratic socialists but neither of them have ever advocated for the public ownership of production like in pure socialism. They have always supplimented they're political views along with democracy.
So simple calling them socialists is incorrect. Also keep in mind that both of them are part of the DNC.
Bernie's actually not part of the DNC. He is registered as an independent.
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I believe neither of them are part of the DNC. They do caucus with the Democrats because the other option is the Republicans.
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You literally said Democratic Socialism and linked a quote contrasting Socialism (generally) to Social Democracy, not Democratic Socialism.
Why does this post start talking about democratic socialism then link to a description of social democracy? Those are not the same thing.
In America, liberalism is called leftism, leftism is called fascism, and fascism is called bipartisan common-sense politics.
The nuances between Social democracy and Democratic socialism never stands a chance in public discourse.
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Leave it to the USA to name two completely unrelated things the same name, because it hates both equally and doesn't distinguish either.
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baby steps
At this point, I'm just celebrating because I would take even democratic socialism in this country at this point. Also, I guarantee the majority of people aren't gonna care to distinguish the 2, sadly.
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The real travesty hear is that there was a 29-year incumbent in the first place. Congress desperately needs term limits.
How TF do you have a 29 year incumbent??
Mitch McConnell has been a senator in Kentucky for 41 years. Its ridiculous that there are no term limits for these people.
There has never been a moment of my life he hasn’t cast a shadow over. I’m gonna need a few hospitals after celebrating
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MF love boomers. Our governor was a strong 20 year run in office, most your senators have been in Washington since the 80's-90's. Yo these people die in their seats of power, thats how...
I suppose it's the fault of the constituents for continuing to vote the same person in over and over again. Or is it that you don't have any other choices?
Laziness. And fear of change.
It is not that there are not other possibilities. I don't really understand how it's now become fashionable on the left to now grumble and carp about "term limits" and engaging in lots of ageism, but what it is fairly obvious is the people doing the most complaining about it are not involved in running in primaries themselves.
I am also highly dubious of anything magical about term limits or having younger people in office.
In fact, I think it's a rather obvious red herring to have everyone engage in some good old fashioned divide-n-conquer, this time divided along generational boundaries. In this particular redux, we now have social media to turbo charge things, instead of the boomers vs. the GI and Silent Generations, it's now Gen Z and Gen Y pitched against boomers. Yawn. I guess it's as predictable as the tides but the people this is mostly aimed at have not been around long enough to know the game.
The fact that so many seem to be fooled by this, especially on the supposed left? Definitely disappointing.
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Damn, that Zionist shill had occupied that seat as long as Melat has been alive!
I was legit excited to vote for her. I’m cautiously optimistic to see how she does.
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Shitlibs beware
hahahahah boy I hope the radical left is as radical and violent as the republicans imagine them to be.
I hope they can pull it off in November. That word "socialist" is like Pavlov's bell, triggering the average American to vote Republican.
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