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Will the Democrats learn from Zohran Mamdani’s victory? | Bernie Sanders (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's a game of Would You Rather and your answer is "screw you guys, I'm going home."

You can join the Democratic Party and push them towards your beliefs or you can keep pushing them further right, but either way it's only D or R for the foreseeable future.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    That's what Bernie's people did in 2016. Did you forget? They went through a whole process of trying to win numerous spots and make changes within the Democratic party structure. They got ratfucked by the DNC who shut them down. The DNC went to court and argued the party could ignore their own internal rules to prevent progressives from winning committee spots and taking over the party.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Sounds like a great argument for getting more progressives deeply placed in the party. Too much of the power structure in the DNC is old libs, only way to change that is to get more of us in place.

    Would Bernie be more effective if he was formally a member of the Democratic Party, like how AOC is? I'm not sure, but it is telling he ran in the Dem primary instead of as an independent.

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