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[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Yes but you’re not considering this within the context

We're seeing a nascent movement with a Tea Party sized constituency that is struggling against a massive undercurrent of hostile corporate media and institutional support.

We've seen it before - during OWS and BLM and the Bush Era anti-war movement and the 80s environmental movement and the 60s civil rights movement.

Contexts change. That's how we got here to begin with.

the DNC now supports abolishing ICE

A plurality of members currently say they support abolishing ICE while they have no control over national policy.

What do local governors and mayors think? My own Houston-Area Dem Mayor has been working hand-in-glove with Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton to conduct mass arrests and fill up prisons full of migrant people. That's in between the odd ICE shooting.

Our liberal City Council greenlit Flock Cameras. Our local House Reps have been championing genocide at home and abroad with their legislative votes and organizing actions.

The party and the people are not aligned.

[-] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

Contexts change. That's how we got here to begin with.

Yes and I'm talking about the current context.

The party and the people are not aligned.

Then primary those establishment members of the party. Right-wing populists successfully subverted the GOP and took control of the party. Do you want to pretend left-wing populists can't do the same to the Dems?

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