I wish her the best of luck, but seriously, I’m to the point now where I sincerely think a clean break from the DNC and the creation of a new party is going to be a better move. Get all the progressives to do that, and you’ve got the nascent core of a new party that actually aligns with the interests of the vast majority of citizens.
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The fascists proved that it's easier to appropriate an existing tool than build a new one from scratch.
Yeah, creating a new party even with incredible organic support would take 3-4 2-year election cycles to shift the balance, and we have about 13 months before we're very likely not even having reliable elections.
Yeah building profile takes time, building credibility takes time. Doing that in every electorate and demographic takes time and money.
Plus any new left wing party would have the full force of the regime against them. Finances would be shut down, leaders harassed and arrested, wide scale disinfo campaigns, their media reach would be throttled by compliant tech and traditional media companies.
The regime has began doing that to the democractic party, but have to move slower with a known national institution like the Dems, than they would with a new and unknown party.
I think I disagree because there are just so many ridiculous roadblocks to ballot access for third parties in different states, plus even if you can overcome that and win you'll run into a bunch of institutional roadblocks if you don't caucus with a "major" party (e.g. if you want a seat on one of those bipartisan committees that hash out 90% of the discussion on a lot of boring-but-important stuff before it even gets to the legislature), but I can definitely see where you're coming from
It's a nice thought but personally I think it would split the vote and nobody but Republicans will be able to win for a long time.
Democrats have done nothing to earn our vote, their entire policy for years has been 'we are not Trump' despite being exactly like him. At this point they can't be trusted to represent our needs in government because they are owned by the same bankers and corporations that own Republicans. If people support 3rd parties and the DNC suffer losses because of it that's their creation.
Better for building a principled platform, sure, but way worse if we actually want that platform to win. Basically every new successful party in this country emerged when one of the existing parties completely dominated the other.
If we want a progressive party, step one is to keep the Republicans from winning anywhere. Destroy the Republicans, and you give politically savvy progressives the confidence to vote progressive without risking abject fascism.
Yeah and you're definitely the first person to ever think this...
Oh wait.
Who shit in your coffee this morning?
What I like about her campaign is the fundraising spends the money on things that matter to people: mutual aide. Many of us saw recording breaking fundraising followed by a loss and asked, what if we spent that money on things we wouldn't regret? And Kat answered.
Reformists will always fail
In the long run, so do revolutionaries.
Revolutionaries (with active parts in the revolution) should never hang around after the revolution.
Not many self-ban from public offices on regime changes tho, so you kinda just hope they die/get killed before the revolutionary ideas in the masses do (like France).
