@benroyce "How do we replicate it across the USA?"

We don't. We need to back whoever is the Democratic candidate is, and hopefully that candidate is the one who is most likely to succeed in their voting district/region.

And we should only boost what's good about the Democratic candidates. We should NEVER say, "Hold your nose and vote for them anyway." That is aiding the Republicans. Period.

No, there are naturally flaws in every Democrat. And there's an endless parade of loud voices already

@benroyce shouting out the flaws of any Democrat.

We do NOT need to be aiding to the din of anti-Democratic criticism.

If you prioritize attacking a Democrat, you are helping the Republicans win. Period. If you say, "Hold your nose," you are helping the Republicans win. Period.

Will anyone stop prioritizing attacking Democrats? Sigh ... I doubt it. I am not a happy camper.

@isaackuo @benroyce I'll believe again that the Democrats can save us as soon as they quit taking AIPAC money and destroying actual leftist candidacies in their nascency.

The Democrats today have forsaken labor and solidarity for aggressively maintaining the neoliberal status quo, and it is not a winning formula.

@liquor_american @isaackuo

yes but the democrats are also mamdani, AOC, bernie sanders, etc

that some of the democratic party are AIPAC captured is obviously wrong, but it's not the whole party

and how do you fix that?

you show up and vote in the primaries and get real left candidates

how do you make sure the entire democratic party is captured by AIPAC?

easy: don't vote

that's why troll psyop farms do social media operations preying on toxic idealism to convince leftists not to vote

@benroyce @liquor_american @isaackuo

Cannot. Be stated. enough. The "withhold my vote" theory of power is cursed.

@liquor_american @benroyce @isaackuo

Democrats are a "kitchen sink" big tent party. They have to try and represent everyone who is not abjectly crazy in the republican ways, and a few people who are objectively crazy in other ways.

There's lifetimes of support and cooperation that have been built up with some of those (AIPAC), and those lfietimes don't go away easy.

This is a generational project. Even Mamdami isn't out of no where: he was a city councilor first. Local first.

@liquor_american @benroyce @isaackuo
But it's gotta be local, and consistent, and we need to get people going to like conventions and shit. Which there are some people doing. But there's a lot of other folks just complaining about the top of the pyramid and other folks federal reps.

That ain't gonna get us anywhere.

Here's the structural issues I am mad the party won't embrace:

@horqua @liquor_american @benroyce @isaackuo

NGL the juxtaposition of your mastodon name and this statement is pretty funny. :-)