• asg101 [none/use name, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    35·
    3 days ago

    The democrat faction of the corporate party only exists to derail and co-opt any actual progressive movements or ideas and channel that energy into pointless electoral ism. The system is working as designed, why change?

    • Rom [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      19·
      3 days ago

      this

      Democrats exist to occupy the left side of the political arena and prevent any actual leftist parties from gaining traction, and to normalize liberalism as the leftmost acceptable political stance in US politics. As far as their donors are concerned, this election was a huge success, and there’s nothing they need to change.

    • Gucci_Minh [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      13·
      3 days ago

      Yes, regardless of if they win or lose, capitalism is maintained. Winning elections was never the point. That’s why they will never court left wing voters, even if they know full well trying to swing the mythical “moderate” republican will never work.

  • TonoManza@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    24·
    3 days ago

    Idk how to word this properly, but the “they will/won’t learn from this” argument is flawed on its face imo as it takes for granted that the Democratic parties primary mission is in any way aligned with ours to start with. It’s not.

    The lesson they will learn is the same one they learn every election, what they’re doing works.

    The Democratic party would rather lose to Republicans than give anything to leftists because they agree with Republicans policies and disagree with leftists policies.

    Every year that they keep leftism at bay, it’s a successful year.

      • TonoManza@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        5·
        3 days ago

        Yes, they made some good points in the video.

        I hadn’t watched the video yet and was just commenting on the general discussions you mention in the title.

        I thought about coming back to specify that they had gotten that right but I was lazy and figured there was no real reason to.

        Instead I learned how to post bean