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DNC Moves to Oust David Hogg After He Says Party Isn’t Standing Up to Trump (truthout.org)

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The DNC cited a procedural concern, but Hogg said it is “impossible to ignore the broader context” of his criticisms.

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

As a result of a challenge from Kalyn Free, a losing candidate in the election, the committee decided that the election was not conducted properly and that it violated the DNC’s gender parity rules. If the full body of the DNC rules the same way, it will force Hogg and fellow Vice Chair Malcolm Kenyatta to run for election again later this year.

Sounds fair to me. If he wanted people to support him unconditionally then he wouldn't be running spoiler candidates against his own party.

I understand a lot of people don't think the DNC is good enough. But they don't seem to know how good the DNC is in general or even how much better it is than the alternative.

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

What's the alternative? Because the DNC has been doing some real shitty things the past decade.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 hours ago

In the past decade we haven't once given the DNC more than 50 seats. If we had given them 60 we would have public option expanded healthcare, we would be taxing the rich, citizens united wouldn't still exist and all this talk of megarich donors would go away, and men and women would have full body autonomy and reproductive organ control as enshrined rights.

Instead, the alternative is getting fucked by Republicans at every turn and complaining that none of the DNC platform has been achievable even though we gave them 44 fucking seats and a Bernie Sanders.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

The alternative would be to drop the DLC and parties altogether, which is what should happen.

Partisan politics should not be allowed in the first place

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

Sounds fair to me.

Anything that keeps the conservative corporate pro-genocide gerontocracy running the party "sounds fair" to you.