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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26024422

Saikat Chakrabarti, AOC's former chief of staff, thinks the Democrats need a bolder vision.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Why the fuck is this ghoul still running in the first place? Please primary her ass CA.

[–] kerrigan778 6 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

You think too much of CA. CA is INCREDIBLY liberal, so much of CA loves her and worships the memory of Dianne Feinstein.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 15 hours ago (5 children)

Trump got 38% of California to vote for him last year. We are nowhere close to “incredibly liberal”. Also I hate Pelosi.

[–] kerrigan778 8 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Undereducated people who can't stand the cognitive dissonance of the liberal control of CA, paying lip service to issues that actually affect the working class while enriching the elites, restricting freedom and protecting the stability of the status quo above all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Yep, this is nail on the head.

Also, a lot of the monied interests are tied to very old people. They're massively out of touch with the world of now, and still think reality is 1998. They're geriatric Matrixers.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

Term and age limits will be needed if the Constitution is improved, alongside ditching first-past-the-post voting. A great deal of America's rot comes from the stagnation caused by career politicians who simply exist to occupy a seat.

Sure, we might lose 'wise' leaders, but it has become pretty damn clear that archaic politicians are the plugged toilets of Democracy. All they do is cause a mess if not promptly handled. The Geronocrats must go.

[–] kreskin 8 points 9 hours ago

It comes from citizens united as well. We are a country whose government runs on bribe money and little else.

[–] fluxion 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

The fact that this would've put Bernie out of a job years ago is a hard no for me. Campaign finance reform so we don't have a bunch of corporate stooges in power, and getting rid of FPTP make more sense to me. Better alternative candidates will have a chance, as well as life-ling civil servants who are proven and lovee by their communities

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

A neat person like Bernie doesn't have to be a politician to do good works. He can help mentor grass root organizations. While it would be a shame to lose a good guy from direct politics, it is far easier for evil politicians to stick around if we don't force them out. A good guy is apt to step down from power when they think it is right, but an evil one? They won't leave until carried out in a coffin.

[–] fluxion 0 points 5 hours ago

Life long service or being old are not synonymous with being evil. You could also be forcing a dedicated good guy out with term limits and making way for an evil person

[–] [email protected] 12 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Fuck yes, let's go with it!

  • Politician age range 30-50
  • Background check
  • Minimum Education Requirements
  • Understands science (including biology) and technology thoroughly at minimum high school level
  • 200 hours of community service working with the poor
  • 200 hours of community service working with the elderly
  • 200 hours of community service working with immigrants
  • Debt, Funding and Corporate Alliance check
  • Blocked from stock market trades along with immediate family
  • No bribes
  • No Lobbying
  • No ex C-STAFF for major companies.
  • Paid enough to be single yacht and a summer home kind of rich.

What else we need in here or what have I gone wrong on?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I have no issue with politicians up to age 65, if we want to capture the breadth of their experience. After 65 though, they're out. Cognitive decline is a sharp dropoff, and we want politicians who are a going concern for the decision they make.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Yeah less for cognitive decline, I kind of want to see more churn on bodies in chairs. Let en go out and earn the rest of their fortunes before retirement.

[–] IndustryStandard 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

A way to get politicians to vote against their own self interest.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

That's not a bad idea How would we do it?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

I love the concept, I think that's going to be kind of hard to write into law.

Maybe instead we could find some way where they are beholden to their constituents?

I guess part of the problem with that is misinformation. We need something to watch over, and stamp out propaganda, But how do you do that without making a tool so powerful that it could be used for evil, or more succinctly, how could you set up guardrails to keep it from being evil.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

All these fucking useless Democratic leaders are so selfish. You've failed and failed over and over again, miserably, yet you still insist on trying to lead? Do the right thing. Step down. Quit. It's truly disgusting how they've strangled their party and country with their incompetence.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 18 hours ago

And let progressives who actually have plans to stop Trump win for once? Never!

[–] Maggoty 15 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

That's not surprising. The left has been looking for someone capable of primarying her for years.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 18 hours ago

And for years she's always held onto her position because of name recognition and money from Super PACs. Ratfucking is a bipartisan tool.

[–] satans_methpipe 10 points 19 hours ago

Fucking ghoul looks cel shaded.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 23 hours ago

Kick her the fuck out. Kick all the useless democrats out. Fuck all of them. They lost. They're done. Go the fuck away.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 day ago (9 children)

“I’ve got some news: I’ve decided to run against Nancy Pelosi to represent San Francisco in Congress. I know some of you might be surprised that Speaker Emeritus Pelosi is running again, but she is—for her 21st term!” Chakrabarti’s post read.

I fucking hate boomers in political office. They refuse to let go of the reins. They want to hold on until death. Selfish.

I saw a video last year asking people in the UK about USA politics and someone commented how old our leaders are.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I think she is too old to be a boomer, that generation was 1946 to 1964. She was born 1940

[–] [email protected] 16 points 23 hours ago

Yeah, she's Silent Generation, same as Biden.

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Saikat Chakrabarti, AOC’s former chief of staff, thinks the Democrats need a bolder vision.

Fuck yes they do!

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[–] Bloomcole 3 points 16 hours ago

this ghoul still alive?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 22 hours ago

The challengers we need are to the entire DNC. They are a failure at representative government

[–] moakley 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Surprising New Primary Challenger

That's not that surprising. I was hoping it was like a golden retriever or something.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Natural progression of the Air Bud series.

[–] Zarxrax 11 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Nothing in the Constitution says a dog can't be speaker of the house!

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[–] finitebanjo 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

As long as one of them wins idc. If one of them loses the seat in the house then this is gonna be the fuck around found out portion.

[–] Absaroka 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Good.

Much like the appeasers that enabled Hitler, history is going to look back on Pelosi, Schumer, Kamala, Biden, Obama, Clinton, Jefferies, and other democrats who stood by and let all this happen on their watch without so much as a wimper.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago

Pelosi, Schumer, Kamala, Biden, Obama, Clinton, Jefferies, and other democrats who stood by and let all this happen on their watch without so much as a wimper.

Woah, those Democrats are trying.....trying to fundraise.

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[–] FuglyDuck 132 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

GOOD.

Pelosi has been in congress for 36 years. To put this in perspective, that's longer than I've been voting. Time to retire.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 day ago (8 children)

To put it further in perspective, Nancy Pelosi isn't a boomer. She's silent generation.

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