Welcome to politcal memes!
These are our rules:
Be civil
Jokes are okay, but don’t intentionally harass or disturb any member of our community. Sexism, racism and bigotry are not allowed. Good faith argumentation only. No posts discouraging people to vote or shaming people for voting.
No misinformation
Don’t post any intentional misinformation. When asked by mods, provide sources for any claims you make.
Posts should be memes
Random pictures do not qualify as memes. Relevance to politics is required.
No bots, spam or self-promotion
Follow instance rules, ask for your bot to be allowed on this community.
Vote for the change you want to see.
The Republican party got remade because trumpists showed up and outvoted the party elites. No reason it can't happen for the Left except for laziness and apathy.
If all the progressives furious about the state of affairs now had shown up for Sanders in 2016, I doubt we'd be in this hellish timeline. Sadly, he needed the young progressive vote to show up.
As a leftist who's been voting in Democratic primaries for the last 24 years: Outside of some extreme enclaves in major cities there aren't enough of us to make a difference that way.
But conveniently there are enough of you that being alienated and not wanting to vote for the Dems is enough of you to lose the entire election and it's all your fault yadda yadda yadda.
Important enough to cost the election, yet not important enough to influence anything.
It makes sense that we can cost them the election and not have any power in the primary, considering we're the minority
And that most Democrats don't support drastic changes and want tweaks.
Look up Jerry Falwell and the Moral Majority.
Jerry made the Evangelicals a huge power in the GOP by simply having his people show up at every single GOP organizing meeting.
If twenty people had picked the nominee for dog catcher last term, the Moral Majority would show up with 50. Those county clerks and sheriffs were soon followed by Mayors and Governors and Congress members...
Now that's a smart strategy, we need to get organized on this level.
People need to stop focusing on how Hilary beat Bernie and look at how Obama beat Hilary.
Do all 3?
We tried that. The result was Wilding vs DNC Services Corp.