I cannot see the DNC standing a chance for reelection, the entire neo lib platform needs to be dropped for something else
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Unless I'm overestimating, This may very well be the way the DNC becomes the DSA. The people not interested in politics have become more awake to how fundamentally broken the system has become with greedy imbiciles at the helm. If this era does anything good, it will shake enough people out of apathy to forge a more benevolent society.
As long as the nukes don't start flying, and we don't destroy the planet for ourselves in the mean time, I'd say I'm a bit more hopeful of the outcomes here.
The weight of what the apathy that letting politicians take the wheel for lobbyists has come bearing down now.
Way too young, both of them. It'll be Trump vs Hillary 2: Adrenochrome Boogaloo.
Uh, why german tho?
A person can have two nationalities
Xitter flags your nationality?
No, people often use the flag in username/display name
This will confuse people because it does not show which one is more racist, judging from the most recent election.
Puppies are soooo much responsibility, I don't think I'm... wait! Would the people I really hate get diarrhea forever too?
Weird.
I didn't think AOC was a presidential candidate until after the primaries.
Maybe we shouldn't be counting our chickens before they hatch.
Reminder that we live in a notably bigoted nation that has problems with women and people of color in positions of authority. Reminder that a lot of voters have issues with young and still relatively inexperienced politicians running for president. Not conservatives. They don't give a fuck who they run for president. But other voters want experience. Reminder that to win we need to get some independents on our side and they definitely aren't going to vote for a far left candidate if they vote left at all. Reminder that at this point, every time we lose, our democracy becomes much, much more threatened by the forces that want it gone.
I like AOC.. What I don't like is continuing to lose and watching our democracy erode.
Based on our bigoted nation, as far as my opinion is concerned, our current best bet to ACTUALLY WIN is Mark Kelly. He is male. He is white. He is more moderate. He has military service. He is a senator. He stood up to Trump in court and won. He is married to a politician who was shot in the head during an assassination attempt and survived. He has the experience and independents and bigots can vote for him without feeling like they're betraying their beliefs.
And despite my OPINION I'm not posting posts pretending to assume he's the chosen Democrat candidate for president years before the primaries even happen.
“New and relatively inexperienced” come now, can we not do this nonsense?
Begging for useless, “safe” centrist candidates is why the US is the way that it is. Mamdani and Al-Sayed and the other progressives seeing support is happening in real-time, so take this weird-ass attitude and shove it.
“New and relatively inexperienced” come now, can we not do this nonsense?
You saying something is nonsense doesn't make it so. AOC would be the youngest president in U.S. history if elected. Her only experience is being a member of the House for 7 years. Only ONCE IN AMERICAN HISTORY (1880) has someone been elected president directly from the House. And I'm not going to accept the argument about Trump having no experience. Liberals are not conservatives. Conservatives openly support felon rapist pedophiles who regularly violate our Constitution and this is not the first time they've elected a TV personality to be president. There is no valuable comparison between us and them.
Begging for useless
How is Mark Kelly useless? He has more experience than AOC and has qualities that connect him with a higher percentage of Americans. The internet doesn't represent reality. If it did Bernie Sanders would be president. Just because AOC is liked on Reddit/Lemmy doesn't mean she stands a better chance than Mark Kelly or makes him "useless".
centrist
Mark Kelly wants to abolish the filibuster in order to pass voting rights legislation. He wants to increase the minimum wage. He is pro choice. He wants to codify Roe v Wade. These are definitely left leaning beliefs.
Mamdani and Al-Sayed and the other progressives seeing support is happening in real-time
Mamdani can never win a national election because he can never become president. He won an election in a DEEP blue area of our country. Al-Sayed has not won the governorship yet. And winning a governorship is a WHOLE DIFFERENT BALLGAME to winning a national election in which he'd have to get racist ass middle America to vote for him, or not vote against him, which simply wouldn't happen.
so take this weird-ass attitude and shove it.
Nah kid. You need to stop allowing your EMOTIONS to dictate your beliefs and start accepting the reality you live in and work within that reality to get as close as possible to what you want. Because enough other people exist in this world that don't want what you want to keep you from having exactly what you want. And the fact that far left candidates and 3rd parties keep losing on a national scale should be enough proof for you. Because right now you don't seem to grasp the difference between a national, federal election and every other election.
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Newsom would absolutely smoke anything the Republicans put up.
Then he would fail to accomplish anything meaningful, continue unpopular policies and while quibbling about the “feasibility” of popular policies. Then the republicans take back the house and senate in the next mid term, and he looses the next presidential election to another wacko facist.
Any candidate democrats put up in the next election will probably win, the question is what happens after that. Real reform and energetic leadership is needed and that’s just not what newsome brings to the table.
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