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Full Caucus Set to Vote After Key Panel Picks Pelosi-Backed Dem Over AOC for Oversight Spot (www.commondreams.org)

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Rep. Ro Khanna said that "many" in the House Democratic caucus, including himself, will back Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in Tuesday's vote.

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[–] [email protected] 118 points 2 days ago (9 children)

Ngl I think AOC should straight up form a new party with Bernie or something like that, because the DNC is just gonna keep giving us the neoliberal shit sandwich until they’re subsumed by the Republican Party outright (other parties being outlawed, of course).

I know that end-state sounds hyperbolic, but at this point I wouldn’t be shocked if that’s how things eventually play out if this authoritarian slide continues.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Except she spent the last election cycle mocking third parties and saying you need to 'build coalitions' by working within the party

If this is what she got for her support of Israel and 'working within the party', then I think she might have been taken for a ride

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 days ago (16 children)

Like how Bernie "worked with" the Dems by bending the knee to Hillary after the 2016 primary?

Yeah idk why the progressives think they can work with the right wing obstructionists that are the Democratic party.

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

Except she spent the last election cycle mocking third parties and saying you need to 'build coalitions' by working within the party

She is right. Divide and conquer is a super effective strategy, the left loves doing the divide part to itself then acts shocked when it gets conquered.

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

When your left-wing coalition depends on kowtowing to capital to survive, it isn't left-wing anymore.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (5 children)

So make yourself smaller, less relevant, less resources but ideologically pure. Not exactly a winning formula. You go to war with the army you've got, not the army you wish you had.

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

When the army you have sabotages you at every turn you absolutely do remove the obstructive elements. The modern Democratic party will simply never allow leftists to have any kind of political power. That's not how they roll, and by the time anything change America will have went full autocrat or starved to death.

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[–] [email protected] 131 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Goddamn just not gonna improve shit even a little bit, huh Democrats?

[–] [email protected] 66 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Democrats aiming to lose what little support the have left.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 2 days ago (2 children)

They would prefer to lose everything rather than move Left even a single inch.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago

And they have spent the last nine years proving that to everyone.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The thing is, when your horse is so high, you tend to overlook those down in the mud. But fear not! When that horse tips over, it’s a long and painful way down for those sitting so high up.

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

at least they’ll still have liz cheney

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Gotta maintain that sweet status quo at all costs.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And by status quo, we mean giving ground to the right year after year.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Political parties in general tend to be extremely hard-headed and reticent to change. It often takes 3 or more elections being lost in the wilderness to get some turnover going.

The US, with its insanely gerrymandered districts, seems especially well positioned to keep the unpopular gerontocracy going as long as possible.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It often takes 3 or more elections being lost in the wilderness to get some turnover going.

I don't think US democracy will survive two more Republican presidents.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Fuck the Democratic Party. We demand Progressive Party

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Now is the perfect time to put together a new party. We have two years to make it viable. Assuming we still have elections.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

[email protected] is a new community for this purpose. Unfortunate it’s on .world

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hopefully the old fuck just has a stroke tomorrow and keels over. That would be a fitting divine punishment for his hubris and desperate clinging to power. Those that refuse to let the next generation take the reins in their time deserve to sudden suffer sudden heart attacks. Peaceful retirement is for those who actually are willing to retire.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Where's a Death Note when the world needs one?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

If I get my hands on one of those, I'm going to need a microfiche writer...

Also, be prepared for a thousand fold multiplying of deaths due to auto-erotic asphyxiation...

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

We need so many more Luigi's to fix this country for the hand sitters.
-Me, a hand sitter

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

> I'm here to end insider politics!

> *plays insider politics*

> *gets fucked by insider politics*

Who could have seen this coming?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Imagine being such a hater that's up your own ass that you hate AOC.

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