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Dems Reportedly Angry That Progressives Are Pushing Them to Act Like an Opposition Party. (www.commondreams.org)
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House Democratic lawmakers reportedly used a closed-door meeting earlier this week to vent their frustrations with progressive advocacy groups that have been driving constituent calls and pressuring the party to act like a genuine opposition force in the face of the Trump administration's authoritarian assault on federal agencies and key programs.

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[–] 27 points 2 years ago (7 children)

The problem is you get the NDP/Liberal vs. Conservative effect when you do this. If you have 30% of the population vote for your Leftie, and 30% vote for the other Leftie, in a given congressional district, the Republican can win with 31%, despite 60% voting against the Republican. We need RCV before we can do this, and people need to understand that they MUST put the other party as choice 2 or we are back to ending up with a Republican.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    That is indeed a problem that needs to be resolved, and likely through ranked choice voting. But as a country, we tend to focus too much on the presidential election. Change will have to start in the congressional elections - both at federal and state levels. The issue of votes splitting will be a lesser issue in these elections except in a few large districts. That will also be where smaller fundraising campaigns would go further.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Change starts at the dog catcher. That's how the maga morons did it. They ran for every single down ballot race, all the way to the bottom.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That’s how the maga morons did it.

    Hell, in my city, the local Dem committee helped the MAGA morons, by running against their own primary winner (A socialist). They were even dual dropping lit for the Chosen One they had in mind, plus the sheriff who is a MAGA nutter.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    Jesus tapdancing Christ. I swear it's like the Dems as an organization want to lose. I'm only on their side to pull left. The second we can pull left to neoliberalism instead of maga nutters I swear I'm going to do everything in my power to volunteer to get them fucking tossed for the further left and less authoritarian.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The thing you're missing is that you'll tap into a whole new category of voters that have never had anyone to vote for before.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    Ding. Both major parties have abandoned the working class, and a whole lot of people have given up on the system as a whole. Give a real choice that has a chance and people will turn up. But that means the politics-as-sports folks need to hang up their team colors, and that's only going to happen by spreading class consciousness. No war but class war.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    I fail to see your point. That sounds like you have a 61 majority for the Republicans. The "Liberals" are aiding the Republicans getting power, as the article points out.

    Also the Democrats are a pink washed far right party, by standards outsidr the US.

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