• Smaile@lemmy.ca
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    It’s why America won’t avert desaster, they simply won’t cut to the heart of the problem, the doners themselves.

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      I mean, the DNC literally did years ago…

      It’s just billionaire owned media want to discourage primary turnout so neoliberals have a chance.

      Nothing matters more than Dem primaries. At this point general elections are what they are, most people are blindly voting by party for one reason or another. Just straight ticket one way or the other regardless of names.

      So we need to make sure when a Dem makes it to a general, it’s someone we want.

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        All the progressive candidates who were against dark money lost in my local primaries for state and county positions. And the now governor spent money again for campaign ads for the candidate he knows he can crush. (Won by 44 percent in 2022 against the crazy right wing candidate in the general election)

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        The fun part is because the primaries aren’t an actual government election they can just use their superdelegates to choose whatever neoliberal ghoul they want anyways, like they did with Hilary

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          You should read up on how that was done by Hillary funding the DNC via her “victory fund”…

          How that was the “war chest” Biden inherited and Kamala got the nomination because she had strings on it…

          How that whole time it was wielded by the neoliberals to force compliance…

          And then realize that the day the new DNC chair took over, he started dumping that money all over state parties, with extra to states we could gain seats in.

          Like bro, 3 years ago you’d have been preaching to the choir.

          But in 2026, you’re streets behind.

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      they simply won’t cut…the doners themselves.

      Oh my god, that’s it. That’s the solution.

      This entire time, we just left the doner spinning away instead of slicing it into the delicious kebab it was made to be.

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      they simply won’t cut to the heart of the problem

      It’s a big thick fucking problem. You’re talking about an entire $32T economy’s worth of millions, billionaires, and - I guess now - trillionaires to carve away. And the problem continues to grow with every booming economic cycle. Sort of the paradox of democratic politics. The thing you presumably want - strong economic growth and domestic prosperity - creates the people you hate.