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When we gut it, can we wear it's carcass?

They managed to do it to the gop, it’s possible

yup

Scooping out its guts like a jack-o-lantern to put a candle of hope (building a society that cares for people) inside it.

Let’s do this.

It’s not an either/or situation. You build in tandem and everyone has their roles. If your time is better spent on electoralism, great. If someone else wants to build a commune, teach political theory and vote green, great. Neither of you knows what will work. It only makes sense to cover all bases.

I don't know that this is any more feasible than the worse outcomes or that it won't both lead to just doing More Incrementalism or letting deadender cultists continue their delusions, which will lead to them just supporting whatever makes them feel good, solving nothing rather be wrong, but

America will never move forward ever again unless we resolve to make our laws to apply to everyone equally... Even people with big fancy offices.

…drastically in one fell swoop.

Yes, they fear out because they know it breaks the two party system. Public funded campaigns are the most impactful here, as they eliminate big money campaigning entirely. Of course, it would also help to prevent political ads by third parties. We strive forward, one step at a time.

Not agreeing with all of your crankery !=lacking courage.

I'm all for establishing real political representation, but aren't you starting from less than scratch though if you try to take over an established party already compromised by grotesquely rich ghouls who oppose you?

As a white man in his 60's I say...it's time for my generation to GTFO and let the younger generation have a go at things. They certainly can't fuck it up any worse than my generation has.

I think Ken Martin is on your side actually

I want Ken Martin to invite dem party higher-up he trusts, Chuck Schumer to invite every pol he trusts, Matt Yglesias to invite every pundit he trusts, along with David Brooks and every writer he trusts, to a big party on a big yacht and send it on a LOOONG round the world cruise (icebergs optional)

im in another country. what's stopping the millions of americans who could do it?

I’ve been voting in primaries and advocating for policies all along. Wbu?

And to rule and get shit done when they’re in the majority.

I love people discovering that they should participate in primaries from first principles

we’re doing our best to remake the party on Long Island

The fear in the US of not praising capitalism is deep. A culture committed to an infantile understanding and worship in both economics and religion is bound to collapse in stupidity. Need to find a way to educate and enlighten people on issues without 40 page white papers a la Clinton 2016.

I agree that there’s lots of opportunity for improvement and I have ideas, but I don’t wanna start from a place of gutting… can we adopt the approach of Mamdani instead of negativity… I am in the Minnesota Twin Cities and even here we could be doing so much more

"After Trump Victory, Shrieking White-Hot Sphere Of Pure Rage Early Dem Front-Runner For 2028" goes hard.

We've been trying to do that for decades. We do need something new. The Democratic Party is irredeemable run by capitalist corporate pigs.  There hasn't been a party representing the working class in Minnesota since Hubert Humphrey absorbed them into the Democratic Party to castrate them.

Everyone needs a hobby, I guess. But better if it's not a destructive one.

Turns out if you stand for nothing, you'll fall for anything.

Sorry, I'm not a Kautskyite; we have more than enough historical examples of how much of a dead end that is and the DSA is speedrunning opportunism and revisionism.

I’m in, let’s do this!

They've had over a century to enact rules that prohibited any such action. To get on the rules committee for 2028, you have to be an elector now, and be nominated and voted in this year. Then you can vote on rules for 2030 election practices.

Dems lost their nerve & convictions on Nov 7, 1984. After Reagan’s sweep, party operatives decided they’d been wrong about voter values. They turned Republican-Lite and have clung to faux-‘realism’ ever since, jettisoning progressive goals and failing to advocate for much.