Progressive Politics

I’ve been something of an apologist for AOC for some time, but her full transformation to mainstream Democrat is disappointing

She's got that 🤩 power now. I mean look at most lemmings brain dead take on her speech. They know nothing about what it took to get AOC into power and that it basically wasn't her doing. It was our doing. Now that she has 🤩 she can tell the people who put her there (read: us) to piss up a rope.

There are some lessons learned for CERTAIN this year on the behalf of outsiders like progressives, and if you were an early member in orgs like our revolution or justice democrats. We're going to do better next time keeping receipts/ collars.

I think whats going to happen/ is happening is that the Republican party is going to collapse after this election cycle, and the Republican party will be largely absorbed into the Democratic party. Its already happening (I mean look how many repub's they are platforming at the DNC).

We should be planning ahead and looking at either a) consolidating the fractured "left parties" (eg greens, working families, social democrats, independents, etc) into a "progressive party", or b) considering creating an new independent third party.

If the above happens (and if Kamala wins, I'm highly confident it will), there will be a period of maybe 1-3 election cycles of restructuring where effectively all parties will have to coalition with or against the Democrats, who will be crab walking to the right. This would be the window where third parties are extremely viable, and strategically acceptable.