• @[email protected]
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    26 days ago

    ‘Democrats have a plan’

    She lost me right there. As a Democrat, I feel confident in stating that we have never had such a thing.

    It is a truth so old that Will Rogers was cracking jokes about it 100 years ago.

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      1225 days ago

      There was exactly one moment in history where Democrats had a plan and that was the New Deal.

      Everything else has just been wild floundering and taking credit for other people’s activism.

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        825 days ago

        TBF the New Deal was a stolen idea too, so…

        Stolen from a union organizer, too, if I remember correctly.

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          325 days ago

          I don’t really care who originally came up with a good idea, I only care that it gets implemented.

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            224 days ago

            Hell, please democrats steal more leftist ideas. Have you heard the one about ranked choice voting? Ooh or how about mass public transit? I’ve got a real doozy of one about who should own the means of production…

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      1025 days ago

      No she’s right. The plan is to abandon leftist constituents and try to court right wing voters, at least for the DNC. We will never have a real left wing party in the US :(

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        425 days ago

        Not without substantial electoral reform. Which puts us in the “chicken and the egg” scenario of not getting reform with the existing 2 party duopoly, and not breaking that duopoly without reform.

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          424 days ago

          Almost a dozen Republican states have straight up made it illegal to do RCV. They’re quick to add THAT to their state constitution, but delay, stall, and block any attempt to secure people’s health

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      1026 days ago

      The Progressives have a plan, Republicans around me used to talk about how Hillary was going to implement it. Putting left agenda in schools and such. That must be why Republicans are against public education.