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'Should be terrifying to everyone': Prosecutor fired by Trump delivers blunt warning
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I'm not a politician. I developed an entirely different set of skills. Throwing away my career at the potential of reskilling is absurd.
And Dems weren't doing their job. I'm tired of people pretending like that's acceptable. I canvass. I get people ready to vote. I do my part.
I can't even tell you the last time a Dem policy benefitted me directly. What I have in common with them really just boils down to them being the only opposition right now. I pushed Harris like we had to and I'll never forgive them for running such an unlovable candidate. They knew what they were doing. The second there's another serious option I'm gone. Dems complete lack of opposition makes them complicit in everything that's happening.
AOC and Omar have entered the chat.
If you don't like the Dems that are in power now, you can primary them. If we get another election.
How long until the dems have effective leadership putting people like AOC and Omar in the spotlight and building around them rather than keeping them on the fringes?
Gee, almost as if you should be out there helping folks win the next set of primaries.
Hard to do, when local Dem committees fight you too, while helping the GOP win seats.
Look up Jerry Falwell and the Moral Majority. They had a simple trick to take control of the GOP.
Whenever the local GOP club met to discuss an issue, the MMs would show up with enough people to win any vote.
If twenty folks had shown up to pick the new county clerk the last time, the MMs would show up with fifty.
It's called 'organizing. That's how AOC and Omar did it, and so can you.
We did. We even won a mayoral primary. Then, the local dems stumped for a write in campaign for the incumbent mayor, and leaned heavy on cops to vote.
In exchange for that, the local Dems dropped lit and in other ways helped the Reich Wing sheriff win his race.
So, again, how do you organize around the two major parties working together to ensure you are kept out?
Oh, cherry on top? The local Board of elections chair is also the chair of the dem committee... who made sure the primary winner lost her other ballot line (WFP)....
Yeah.... voot bloo no matter hoo!
And you act shocked when people say both parties are the same?
Oh, remember that time socialists won the Nevada Dem Committee in a wipe out? Remember afterwards they canceled all office leases, drained the bank accounts, and filed a recertification of the organization with the state?
Yeah, those are good times....
And yet the Squad all managed to do it.
The squad has done some awesome.stuff, sure.
How do you suggest we organize around the situation I described? The party boss controls all levers if government here...
I mean, wfp has been fighting hard... against the dems trying to keep them off the ballot, totally....
Our fucking governor is a right winger and a Dem...
You are allowed to contribute to and work for people outside your district.
At this point, far to much to do locally, to be overly worried about a Christofascist state's elections.
I usually don't bother to look at people's names when they post. You're running three arguments at once and not making sense in any of them.
You just keep repeating yourself, and never post any actual ideas or plans.
I've said good-bye once, andnow I'll do it again.
I'd block you, but I got a chuckle out of how demented you were getting.
Lmao if you get a primary. Trump wasnt the one who took that away from you last time, and he wasnt the one who screwed over bernie before that. Good job pointing to the two token progressives as if that doesnt prove the other guy's point.
Keep saying both sides are the same enough, maybe you can convince yourself.
Thats literally not what im saying. Im saying you all should have demanded the democrats be better, not just pledged your undying devotion because they arent as bad. But keep blaming everyone except the politicians who fucked you, thats turning out great.
What is your actual plan?
I know the Dem I want to run against the current GOP Congressperson in 2026.
What are you planning on doing? Going to get a 3rd Party up and running in 24 months?
No, probably not unfortunately. But if you had all listened to the people sounding the alarm about the democrats years ago that might have worked. If you all hadnt spend so much energy attacking undecided and pro palestine voters a year before the election even happened, and instead directed some of that energy into pressuring the democratic party, whoch was what the whole undecided movement was about, then maybe the democrats would have changed direction and not shifted so much further right and lost the election because of it. Your constant apologetics for terrible party leadership is causing you to lose any small influence you may have had. But also yes, its probably worth getting a 3rd party going at this point even if they aren't immediately viable, because you'll never see meaningful change otherwise.
So, you don't have a plan or any idea of what to do besides try and get good Dems elected?
But yes, let's keep harping on the past instead of moving forward, because not doing anything always works.