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And this is why even if you absolutely hate the moderate asshats in the Democratic party, you should remain registered and vote in each and every primary.
Congrats to Angie Nixon on fighting the good fight and winning!
If you hate establishment Dems, voting in the primary is so very critical. And more than that, speaking up and volunteering to text people and go door-to-door if you can - provide whatever support you can BEFORE the primary, then vote in the primary.
And then, of course, vote int he general because no matter which one won the primary, establishment Dems still end up doing more for human rights than fascists.
But yeah - those who only complain in the general and worse, don't bother to vote in the general after not doing anything before either............. they are part of the problem.
Caucus. Primary. Vote. I know every state is different, but find your local Democratic party (or DSA or anything you want, really) and show up. You'll have a lot of influence there because you'll be one of like 20 people that shows up. And it really matters.
You can influence your local party and that influence puts pressure on the regional parties and so on. We lost a crucial caucus endorsement in my neck of the woods that cost a progressive the primary. And I saw how close the caucus vote was. It really does matter.
But I ain't in no desert, I don't know what them cactus things is!
;-)
$975,000 to Vindman’s $16.3m
16:1. I think that tops El Sayed.
fabulous congratulations also to Brandon Dukes a (non commie larper) Democrat that flipped a seat in important swing state Pennsylvania.
real results from real politicians
we will watch her carrier with great interest
This is not a trivial win!
she won by a clear margin. Nixon received 56.1% of the vote ... ahead of Vindman’s 43.9%.
Congratulations to Angie Nixon. beating Alexander Vindman is quite an accomplishment, he was not a bad candidate for a democrat. Testifying against Trump in 2019 brought him a lot of respect, and he had more campaign money too!
IMO he was a pretty bad candidate. He gave the dems several news cycles of criticizing Trump when he testified before congress so he was kind of gifted this race by the party. He's as milquetoast as they come and completely unproven as he's never run for anything else. He would have gotten creamed in the general. We'll see how a DSA candidate performs in a statewide election in Florida.
I'm not denying that, but he was known for standing up to trump, that can carry you a long way.
I respect his service to the country and his courage. But he wasn't going to move the needle in Florida. He wasn't even from there.
Does the US media call every progressive Democrats' win a "surprise"?
Yes, because they need to maintain the narrative that progressive candidates are 'fringe' and only ever win by chance or cheating. That way when the general election comes around, potential progressive voters will be disinclined to vote for the progressive candidate, or they may just not go vote at all, because they have been convinced that the progressive can't really win.
Something like that. The sometimes mystifying (to me) New York Times effect, which always seems to enable conservatives or, at best, the democrats' right wing. "We don't win against republicans because we still aren't enough like them"
it only surprise to them. we are fed up.
This isn't US media. It's UK.
aww shit I should've seen that. But my statement still stands. Each time they still act like it's a surprise that people have had enough in droves.
Yeah, similar article by ABC says "upset". Then they compare the money that each candidate raised.... It wasn't an upset, people are angry at the mistreatment we've been going through. The money in politics is an abomination.
The money in politics is an abomination.
I keep saying it. Legal corruption.
finally someone i voted for has won! go get em Angie!
Did our part as well, really cool to see!
is her camping organized like Mamdanis where they rely on volunteers? If yes maybe you could even mobilize, if you feel like it
This isn’t a surprise, this the new normal emerging from the inhumane conditions of capitalism. People are fed up with having the value of life placed below the value of property, power and wealth.
Capitalists are deluded, distracted and pacified with pretty possessions and their lives have been reduced to mere consumption and the worth of their wealth portfolios. Wealth and property courtesy of those who toil in developing nations, on the backs of workers, in order to support lavish lifestyles of abundant consumption. None of that matters when you die.
The relationships you build with others, the impact you have on your communities and people you interact with, matter far more than how much property and wealth one can amass. The inevitable course of capitalism is the degeneration of civilizations. In the era of techno-capitalism, our communities are falling apart due to isolation and lack of true connections. Without the power to organize and collectively act, via real in-person relationships with emotional investment, we become powerless via lack of true social skills and social anxieties. Internet neurosis.
This is by design and exactly what the techno-capitalists want.
People have been fed up for a long time and looking for change. That's what helped Obama win in 2008. Alas, the propaganda from the fascists has been pervasive since long before that, so a lot of the people fed up for now decades have been deluded into voting for what continues to make things worse.
It's not just that a lot of the establishment Dems are not only behind the times but also beholden to corporate money, dragging them right-wing; but also, even shit they DO get done always gets minimized in the media (largely owned by oligarchs who benefit from fascist laws and tax cuts) while the fascists get a lot of passes in the media for those same reasons.
I think there are a number of countries out there showing that properly regulated capitalism is probably the best practical system we have. But it has to be properly regulated. And it is a constant fight. Laws matter little if people ignore them and nobody enforces them. So no matter what system is set in place, there will always be a fight by people to corrupt it.
And the point about social changes is also true. I have my wife, and two real friends. A few acquaintences I chat with every few weeks. A few people I keep up with online but mostly in shared projects, not socially. Much of my family I've had to block for political reasons, so I have my dad and one uncle left. My stepmom, but I was an adult when lost mom and dad remarried - she's really sweet and I adore her but just don't talk much.
I think something like that - that lack of people - is probably true for most. We used to be forced to deal with our neighbors because most people didn't move around much, so for a lot of people, you'd spend decades in the same place. With the rise of communications making it easier to keep in touch remotely, it's definitely radically shifted our social construct.
I think that's one reason - when people say "all this talk online does nothing" - but this is the last marketplace of ideas we have. This is where we have left to organize. So like-minded people have to find each other somehow, and then hopefully organize on the local, regional, national levels. Because we need to organize to have protests. And protests need to happen until everyone sees there are enough of us that demand change that we can enforce that demand. So it's like an effort that must be ramped up, and talking online is the critical foundation for that, even though it's useless until we get there.
Next we primary Wasserman-Schultz
I'm glad she won. She had a great team on the ground here in FL doing the work.
Het slogan should be:
I'm not a crook
The reference would fly over the heads of Gen Z.
It should work whether you get the reference or not. Somehow not being a corrupt grifter is an unique selling point.