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75-Year-Old Democrat Who Beat AOC for Key Role Resigns After 4 Months (www.jezebel.com)
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[-] [email protected] 77 points 1 month ago

I hate to say “I told you so,” but AOC very obviously should have been tapped for this position from the start. It shouldn’t have taken a 75-year-old man receiving a second cancer diagnosis for the party to see that. But at the very least, Democrats now have a second chance to do the right thing—the smart thing, the thing that people who actually want to win would do…

embrace the hate. I sure as hell do everytime some geriatric dnc cryptkeeper dribbles out another excuse as to why the party has not pushed the next generation forward.

best make sure the yunguns are put forward with the supporting collective knowledge of the dnc corpses still able to gurgle out historical advice and experience. whatever happens, those who will inherit this mess will need to consider options and make the decisions from now on.

[-] [email protected] 53 points 1 month ago

It shouldn’t have taken a 75-year-old man receiving a second cancer diagnosis for the party to see that.

To be clear on the timeline:

  1. He ran a campaign insisting he was healthy and fit for office.

  2. The day after the election he announced he "just found out" he had cancer.

  3. When running for the chair of this committee just months later, he acted like there was no logical reason someone could believe cancer at 75 would effect his ability to fight fascism.

And Pelosi and the (prior) DNC supported him thru all three of those steps.

Like, he clearly lied about when he knew, and he was awarded by the (again, not current) party for it.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

But at the very least, Democrats now have a second chance to do the right thing—the smart thing, the thing that people who actually want to win would do…

And they won't. They would bring in a dusty skeleton long before they ever give progressives a chance.

[-] [email protected] 61 points 1 month ago

Get the dinosaurs out of the party. Now.

I'm not sorry about it anymore. No one should be. The country is falling apart because these people have all the resources and use them to make shitty decisions to empower themselves more, despite being so old that they'll never even see the return on their greed. Vote them out. We need progressives.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

He hand-picked his replacement, a racist, homophobic, anti-abortion 70-year-old

the Ken Klippenstein tweet

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

more or less the old guard DNC are the same as the gop, they both work out deals together behind the scenes, just like they did with mitch.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Ah yes, exactly what the country needs /s

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Feel free to go do what needs to be done. They’re slow.

[-] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago

That was the plan all along, make sure AOC loses. The democrat party is complicit with the evils of the current regime and they have no intention of letting anybody do anything about it.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The democrat party is complicit

There was a DNC chair election between then and now, and we got the most progressive chair in over 50 years...

I've spent most of my life shitting on Dems but holding my nose because I didn't have another option.

As of February tho. I'm 100% behind the current DNC.

The reason the media didn't talk about that, is the same reason they suddenly became OK criticizing Dems as well

Because billionaires now only control one of our two political parties and they can actually lose the next election. If we keep party unity, we can easily have president AOC in four years

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

I wish i had that same conviction in the new chair

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's not blind optimism.

Read up on Ken Martin and how he ran the Minnesota State party, it will make you a hell of a lot more confident in the future of the party and the country as a whole.

Especially if you're aware of how bad the DNC has been for decades and that the "victory fund" was bankrupting state parties and losing lower seats for a decade. Just stopping that would get us the House and maybe Senate.

We honestly don't need much out of the DNC, Martin isn't perfect (no one is) but it's a very low bar to beat MAGA.

Edit:

There's still some Dem state parties that are shit, so feel free to go after them if you want, but the national party is finally on the people's side again.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Do you have any links? All I'm getting when I search is him getting in a fight with that Sandy Hook kid.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

And him preemptively giving up on average Americans in favor of the billionaires

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

https://theintercept.com/2021/03/08/nevada-democratic-party-dsa/

The entire raison d'etre of the Democratic party is to make polite Republicanism the only alternative to real Republicanism. They have consistently proved that unity to fight Republicans is only ever supposed to go one way. Progressives have to give up all of their ideals and positions to support the right-wing of the Democratic Party, which should never be questioned or asked to compromise in any form. If progressive policies would help win elections against Republicans, than all the centrists will sabotage everything to help Republicans win, rather than let progressives win on popular policies.

It was the centrists Dems that gave us Trump. Making Neoliberalism bipartisan and the hollowing out of America that paved the way for Trump. BILLIONAIRES CONTROLLED BOTH PARTIES STARTING WITH CLINTON IN 1992, AT THE LATEST! The Democrats would rather try to use the crude and crass actions of the Republicans, to try to run on their platform, but being the lesser evil, since they are polite. There is a reason Obama and Biden are the top two deportation presidents. And Biden/Harris continued to support genocide, even though it posed an electoral liability.

The Democrats aren't people with their heart in the right place, forced to make compromises. They are the sheep-dogs forcing people to accept "lesser evils" when the "lesser evils" are the same policies with a figurehead being more polite. Their entire point is to use the two-party system to prevent any substantive opposition to right-wing policy to take form.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

even whitmer is starting to shill for trump, twice already.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

AOC is going to keep capitulating to Democratic Party politics, and she's gonna keep getting shafted by it because the party structure is completely resistant to even the most minor or performative changes. Even David Hogg is getting challenged for daring to say "maybe the Democrats should do things instead of just taking up space."

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Evidence that they still think their biggest existential threat stems from the left.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

That and their vindictive reactions to any that dares to challenge those currently in power

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

David Hogg

David hogg, the democratic party, and the justice system will not protect us. We are on our own.

www.socialistRA.org

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Apparently Democrats take away is that he was too young. They are tapping an 87 year old next. https://www.axios.com/2025/04/30/eleanor-holmes-norton-oversight-aoc-connolly

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

87 vs 70 yr Olds fighting to prevent people who will actually be impacted from any decisions from being in charge 😭😭😭

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Apparently not. The article updated some time after your comment, and now she's decided not to go for it. I guess it is possible for dinosaurs to take a hint, after all.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

The national level party’s pigheaded “seniority above all else”, “don’t cut in line” thinking really needs to go.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

The ~~national level~~ party ~~’s pigheaded “seniority above all else”, “don’t cut in line” thinking~~ really needs to go.

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