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[-] MrNobody@quokk.au 10 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Because the DNC is controlled by the elites. You cannot fix the system by voting in it, it’s rigged to their advantage.

[-] couldhavebeenyou@lemmy.zip -1 points 10 hours ago

Can't you primary them out of control? Join, volunteer & push out the limp fucks? I mean, the Tea Party was able to take over the GOP in less than a decade

[-] Nouvellalia@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

This seems to be a very good point on it's surface. However, the GOP got cooked by a dozen billionaires working very hard and spending a lot of money against a dozen other billionaires. The tea party and eventually the magats, where in no way grass roots.

If you can find a few dozen billionaires, and they might have to be centi-billionaires at this point, it's not the 90s anymore, if you can find a dozen of them, you have a chance to sway the DNC over the next 30 years just like the magat billionaires did.

Do you know a dozen hundred billionaires who want a 95% tax rate on their fortunes, strong, pervasive worker unions and legal protections, a $70 minimum wage, an end to "political donations", a complete overhaul of the police and judicial system, free education and healthcare, etc? I bet we can't find one that wants even just the first one.

[-] couldhavebeenyou@lemmy.zip -1 points 4 hours ago

Are these bilionaires standing over you in the voting booth?

[-] Nouvellalia@lemmy.world 1 points 28 seconds ago

Yes, at the tabulating machines.

[-] youcantreadthis@quokk.au 2 points 8 hours ago

No the primary is controlled it doesn't actually have to obey its rules this most recent time they didn't even hold one

[-] couldhavebeenyou@lemmy.zip -1 points 4 hours ago

Bar some very specific cases, they're holding primaries for every electable house and senate seat that comes up every 2-4 years.

Sure, party leadership tries to steer these (same as GOP) but if you want to break their balls: that's where to do it

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