I desperately need Democratic Party leadership to understand that winning the House and Senate cannot mean a return to "normal" pre-Trump.

[ij@nerdculture.de]

@QasimRashid Not sure that Obama or Biden led to Trump.

I think it was neoliberalism under Reagan and therefor the rise of super rich tech bros together with a broken bipartisan election system in a turbo-capitalist society led to Trump.

But I agree: the US need to fix their broken system.
Turn away from bipartisan system, throw the election system over with its majority based election, move to proportional representation, fix your crazy educational system, overturn the concentration of media outlets in the hands of super rich, tax the super rich until they are just rich, end the life time jobs of federal judges of the supreme court for a max. term of 10 years, get real universal health care for all, end US defaultism and exceptionalism, etc…

[2legged@mastodon.ie]

@mastodonmigration Any new leadership will also be a wholly-owned servant of big capital.

@QasimRashid

[sordid_seraphim@mastodon.social]

@benroyce @phaedral @QasimRashid Let's not go around saying Kamdani is alt yet, he has plenty of time to back down from promises. Mamdani is a start, not the end goal.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@Sordid_Seraphim @phaedral @QasimRashid

of course

but let's not act like everyone on the left is a future fetterman

there will be future fettermans

that's just life. disappointments are normal. no progress comes without difficulties

but if a mere *possibility* that someone might go centrist or worse, nothing real, just a fear, is enough to turn people off from engaging, well that's completely fucked up. i don't know to address that kind of reticence

[sordid_seraphim@mastodon.social]

@benroyce @phaedral @QasimRashid
The issue is Mamdani successfully branded himself as Socialist to the crowd. Any L's he takes lands directly in the pocket of the left.

That's especially an issue if he is actually a sneaky establishment dem then it's the dury of the people to hold his feet to the fire.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@Sordid_Seraphim @phaedral @QasimRashid

It's especially an issue if he's actually an alien from Alpha Centauri

Come on

You're speaking on baseless fictitious suspicions

You take the man at his word

If he goes back on his word, you castigate him

If he doesn't, you celebrate him

But if instead, he hasn't gone back on his word, and you sit there envisioning horrible betrayals this is just some fucked up bullshit

I'm going to take a wild guess and say you can be rather paranoid?

[sordid_seraphim@mastodon.social]

@benroyce @phaedral @QasimRashid except the dude already backdown on his stance on police.

Why are you acting like what I'm saying is crazy, this is how the democrats have operated for well over a decade.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@Sordid_Seraphim @phaedral @QasimRashid

you're disappointed in a stated policy position isn't happening fast enough on one issue, so "everybody the same"

do you expect the culture of the NYPD to change on a dime?

do you want Mamdani patrolling the streets along with the cops?

or will you show some patience and temperance and understand big problems take awhile to change?

or, you know, "utopia on day 1 or the same as fascism"

yeah, i think what you're saying is crazy

[bzdev@fosstodon.org]

@QasimRashid Part of the problem is fixing the Supreme Court decision Citizens United: whether by a constitutional amendment or by adding more justices. While it could be just "please send us money", I got the following in an email from the DNC: "Here’s the deal: The GOP has its billionaire allies already spending hundreds of millions of dollars to keep MAGA in control of the House and Senate."

[n_dimension@infosec.exchange]

@ij @QasimRashid

That really sounds like a list of reforms the broligarchs would support.

Might be getting to the time to water the tree of liberty.

[n_dimension@infosec.exchange]

@Pineywoozle @QasimRashid

Shouldn't you check what the Dems policy on Palestine is?
And stay at home because
Principles > Fascism ?

[sordid_seraphim@mastodon.social]

@benroyce @phaedral @QasimRashid but I - he literally said! -

I'm going to sleep.

[zagone@hear-me.social]

@Pineywoozle @mastodonmigration @QasimRashid

I'll be voting a straight Democratic ticket -- Social Democrats whenever possible.

I have low hopes nonetheless.

Too bad most of us were more worried about school shootings than democracy. The Left could use a few self-defense guns when the fascists start hunting.

We simply MUST win the midterms.

[zagone@hear-me.social]

@Pineywoozle @mastodonmigration @QasimRashid

Or hope the military stays loyal to the people.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@Sordid_Seraphim @phaedral @QasimRashid

if i say "i want to end world hunger"

then i'm elected president

and world hunger doesn't immediately end on day 1

am i liar? did i betray you?

am i immediately the same as the guy who said "more hungry, more bombs, more billionaires"

an objective is not a promise of complete victory in no time

your "standards" for making hilariously cynical judgments is fucking wack

[deepmud@mas.to]

@mastodonmigration if there's no democratic candidate running, just put a golden retriever in. Everyone prefers a dog to the current unwashed gop