What do they have to do with voting members of the DNC?

It feels like you don’t really understand the American political system

The voting members?

It’s been a slow shift back to the left for a while.

I feel like you’re talking about elected politicians, they’re not “the party”

If you abandon the social contract by being hateful or violent to others, you are no longer protected by it.

Pretty much the oldest rule of society and the first one established.

Outlaws are romanticized, but back in the day it was being such a shithead that you no longer had any protection under law.

Someone could rob, beat, and kill you in front of the sheriff and the mayor and nobody would do anything.

If you were going to ignore the rights of others, you would have zero rights. They turned to life’s of banditry in the wilderness because that was the only option. But most often they’d starve or be killed first.

If you want to win you need to back candidates that are more then just centrist dems who want to be bipartisan.

Welp, again I’d recommend reading up on Martin:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Martin

And I’d be surprised if those texts were really from the DNC, if so it’s probably the zombie vestiges of the “victory fund” nonsense still running bots. That’s the only plausible reason anyways, for a decade the prior DNC was robbing local/state parties with that stuff, they don’t care about the candidates chances because none of it was going to be used for that race anyways

The only rational way to be an optimist is prepare for the worst.

Never put all your eggs in one basket, it costs less than a grand to get kitted out with a rifle and plates, and it’s undeniable that it’s an effective visual deterrent from police violence at protests

Don’t you dare accuse me of acting like Trump and his cohort

Exactly how trump would react…

No introspection, no questioning of their own behavior…

Just a vague threat because you’re mad someone is judging you on your own words.

Literal belligerence.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/belligerence

One of the most apt descriptions of Trump’s general behavior, which you clearly share

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Martin

That’s the new chair, his track record is winning elections, not raising a bunch of money and still losing like prior chairs.

He ran Minnesota’s state party for years and it’s a progressive stronghold because he didn’t stand in progressive candidates way.

But you want a great sign the DNC isn’t in billionaires pockets anymore?

Look at how mainstream media is treating the DNC now, there’s all types of talk about how voters don’t like the DNC, ignoring that a fresh guard took over in February.

When neoliberals held control of the party, the big news media channels were never critical

You act like this is new for America and hasn’t happened anywhere else…

Which is crazy because it’s currently happening other places as well…

Like, you don’t seem interested in a conversation, and anything I type will just get an insult directed towards Americans as a reply.

Why punch down?

Why are you acting like trump and his cronies right now?

It’s hard to see right now

Read up on history. Shit really is cyclical.

The details and timelines change, but the biggest thing we’ve ironically got going for us is Trump. He’s an idiot and rushing shit when it isn’t worth the risk to his plans.

He picked the fight with the SC years early for example, he should have spent three years slow-walking them even more to his side. But he’s an idiot.

If he had spent two years putting things in place they might hold on in midterms, then would have been the time to really start going nuts.

Anyone else and we’d be completely fucked, but trump is so dumb he bankrupted casinos, he’s gonna fuck this up.

I don’t know how this shit will end, but I can’t see anything other than it getting a whole lot worse in the immediate future, and probably for a generation

Historically what comes next is a FDR style candidate and a huge progressive movement…

Then 30-40 years later people will forget neoliberlaism was the root cause and the wealthy will buy off both parties again.

Shit is fucked at the moment, but there’s reasons to be optimistic for the future

There’s a very good chance we see justice now that the neoliberals are out of the DNC. They didn’t want to hold Republicans accountable because then people would expect neoliberals to be held accountable as well.

The people want them held accountable, and they’ll vote accordingly. With a fair DNC that’s the candidate we’ll get. And without a neoliberals being shoved down America’s throats, winning elections are easy.

People don’t blame Biden’s admin enough for refusing to hold trump accountable for all the shit from his first term. It wasn’t just bad then, it depressed turnout and let trump back in.

Thankfully rational people control the DNC again.

No, this is using the national guard to assist law enforcement…

Something pretty much every president has done.

The difference is usually states/cities request it, this is trump saying he’s going to do it, and it’s vauge enough that it also likely includes working with ICE in no knock raids where targets get zero due process.

Crying wolf makes it more likely people under-react when/if it does happen.

That’s why words matter.

Yep, martial law is a huge step and likely what would proceed an actual civil war.

This sucks, but it’s not really new. The National Guard has done all of these things before, under administrations from both parties.

It’s important people understand it and the context of likely being used to abduct people without due process and deport them.

But that’s different than martial law.

And people need to be informed about what’s actually happening

It’s one of those things where words have meaning, and you’re using words in a way that misrepresents reality…

Commonly referred to as “misinformation”

Martial law is an actual thing and we are not officially under it.

The EO sucks and shouldn’t be a thing, but don’t pretend it’s something that it’s not because that softens people’s reaction when it really happens

The White House told NBC News that Hurts and other players not attending the celebration have “scheduling conflicts.”

the problem here is that nobody takes the time to think about how civics actually work in this country.

This rapper does an amazing job of breaking down why people don’t vote, what elections they need to be voting in, and why so many people misrepresent our political system.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wMALeR1i-FM

mean when Democrats were falsely advertising hope and change but never followed through as usual and Obama just went to basketball games, but the workers never got living wages and nothing else happened from all the empty promises

Was that 50 years ago?

Did Obama nominate a progressive DNC chair or did he ignore the DNC because the neoliberals running it actively worked against him, which allowed the neoliberals to remain in control of the DNC?

Because buddy…

It seems like you’re not informed about the topic.

Quick edit:

To clarify I mean the first time the DNC pushed a more conservative candidate than Dem voters wanted in an attempt to steal Republican voters: Jimmy Carter.

The fact that he’s remembered as the last “true left” president shows how much the party has fallen. At the time the party was fractured because Jimmy wasn’t progressive enough for the Dem voting base. And we’ve only moved right since the, until the 2025 DNC chair election.

Battles have been fought and the war was won, neoliberals do t run the DNC anymore

The reason mainstream media switched to “both sides” after four years of defending Biden and pretending he was perfect is instead of Biden getting to place another corpo friendly DNC chair, the DNC got to vote and picked the most progressive chair in over 50 years.

Is Ken Martin perfect?

Nope, but billionaire owned media turning against the party almost on the day he was elected should be enough to tell us it was a victory.

Now is when progressives need to rally around the DNC, the neoliberals will vote Republican like they did in 08, but there’s so few neoliberal voters it won’t matter now either.

And 51% approved of his handling of gender and trans people?

When the life is bad, people want something to blame.

The people who benefit from life being bad for 99% of us, pick small marginalized groups and blame them.

If we fix people’s lives, they won’t want a Boogeyman and society becomes more acceptable.

It’s why the wealthy always want us to focus on social issues first, they want us to waste our time because the best we’ll do is shuffle around what social issues we’re fighting for.

We can waste all our time treating symptoms, or we can fix the root cause