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Change is needed (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 17 points 1 month ago (1 child)

From a European point of view, it's pretty clear the Democratic Party isn't leftist. We have many communist parties on the old continent after all. But there's hope whith elected officials like Zohran Mamdani who styles himself a socialst and implements real socialist policies.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago*

    In Political Duopoly systems, like we saw with Trump in the US and with the Brexiters (mainly Boris Johnson) and Tony Blair in the UK, political change is done by one of the factions within the broad ideological umbrellas which the parties in such systems always end up being, taking over the party from the inside.

    So, for the US to pivot Left, the so called "Socialist" (though, in reality merelly Social Democrat) faction within the Democratic Party has to take that party over from the inside.

    Judging by the powers shown by of the DNC as well as things like unelected "Super voters" as shown during the Democrat Presidential Candidate Primaries with Bernie Sanders, the party statutes are heavilly rigged against that.

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