The continuing resolution is the one near-term lever Democrats might have to limit the Musk/Trump administration lawbreaking.
A current tally of positions on the Continuing Resolution makes it quite clear that things are very much in flux right now, which makes constituent pressure important. Call your senators and tell them to oppose.
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Why they aren’t announcing a third party right now, fucking mystifies me.
Because of basic game theory. The US is a two-party state for fundamental structural reasons.
That said, the identities of the two parties have changed every once in a while. Seems like they’re overdue for another such shakeup at this point, but who knows when it’ll come. Could be that the two existing parties have figured out how to stall that.
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It’s the perfect time for a populist candidate to succeed. It’d also be a pretty well timed repeat of history.
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Yes, I said that in the next sentence after the one you quoted.
The key is that it still remains a two-party state. “Third parties” are not viable in this system, and in fact they are counterproductive. You need to swap one of the existing ones out, or gut it and repurpose the empty shell.
That said, the identities of the two parties have changed every once in a while.
Exactly. A progressive leftwing party would be perfectly positioned to cannibalize the DNC and become the leftwing party of the duopoly and maybe hopefully abolish the electoral college.
I don’t think the ‘good ones’ have enough to take the DNC. Why they aren’t announcing a third party right now, fucking mystifies me.
Because of the spoiler fallacy and American progressives’ Stockholm syndrome-style attachment to the Democrats.
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To put it in terms of the headline: Democrats pick up their sword, and drive it into their own chest.
No
We need a leftist party that’s interested in representing its voters
That could - by no means a guarantee - result in vote splitting and worse outcomes.
I remember when the DNC said that in 2015, and we know what happened in 2015
Maybe we should try unifying under non neolib leadership?
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Both my senators, the D and the R, will tell me to go pound sand and give my name to Kash Patel as a leftist agitator.
Lmao, no. The dems are as useless as the repubs are compromised.
Knowing them, if they do they’ll immediately stab themselves with it.
Haven’t there been leaked conversations among the dems that are basically “we need to alienate the left side of the party and try appealing to center-right voters by sucking some maga dick.”? The dems are a lost cause.
The only time Dems pickup the sword is to fight the left when they get too loud.
I absolutely guarantee not a single politician will pick up a sword.
No.
Betteridge would like a word.
