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It really seems like Gov. JB Pritzker is running to be the next President of the United States.
Today he introduced the idea of a 'Project 2029', calling for restoring democracy, prosecution of Trump officials who have broken laws, universal healthcare, and an affordable minimum wage.
Feel like this is not a done deal. It's interesting when you think about it. An entire generation has grow up without seeing a real down and dirty Democratic primary. The last one was Obama 2008. Since then it has either been an incumbent or a VP selection. It will be twenty years ago in 2028.
The thing about a bruising primary is it surfaces real political talent, hones the messaging, and makes everyone better through practice and repetition. Real primaries win general elections.
Well said
Edit: Feel like the other big benefit is that they gain experience on the national stage, so that when it comes to the general they have more proficiency.
Great point. It really is a traveling road show that energizes the process. It's not perfect. Way to much attention to the small early states, but much better than a bunch of party elites picking a candidate.
Just imagine the debates
Most certainly
We will see.
I'd go full accelerationist and let 47 have a third term to finish killing everyone on the planet with his senile mush brain before voting for fucking Newsom. If that's who the Democrats offer, they deserve to lose and we all deserve to suffer.
Newsom has very high negatives. A lot of people feel the way you do. Hard to see how he makes it very far once the actual race begins.
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Oh yes, please. Project 2029 should be project of torches and pitchforks.
The super rich should be happy they end up in jail
Ha! I recently complained to someone about how if the Democrats were worth a shit, they'd be putting forth Project 2029 with a boldly progressive vision...etc.
I might actually be able to get behind this guy. Which is a low bar since I would crawl through broken glass to vote for virtually anyone against Newsom in the primaries.
@mastodonmigration I support those policies, but it's a shitty name.
Project 2025 was a collection of donor-sponsored grifts that Heritage put together and that Trump (privately) embraced to endear himself with the GOP donors.
Perhaps Pritzer is sincerely planning to push back MAGA policies should he be elected. Or maybe Pritzer wants voters to think that he'd do that while telling the Epstein Class that he's open for their policy ideas (and donations)?
Regardless, 2029 is 3 years away, and look how bad thing have gotten after a little more than one year of Trump. America needs resistance *today.*
*"There'll be pie in the sky when you die." "THAT'S A LIE!"*
Certainly have not gotten the impression that he is courting the Epstein class.
But, as you say, we are a long way from the next election, and whomever rises to the nomination is going to have do a lot to convince the country they are the one to repair the incredible damage that has been done.
No disagreement at all. Hopefully we will see a real battle for control of the Democratic Party.
The most encouraging thing so far has been Julia Stratton's win in IL, despite opposition from AIPAC, Crypto and AI PACs. She was supported strongly by Pritzker, and she was clear that she would not support Schumer for the next leader.
So, things are happening, and we should take note of who is on the side of the people.
I like Midwestern Democrats like Pritzker and Tim Walz. I'm tired of the drama and theatrics and relentless performance of the deadly Reality Show Trump years. Put me down for very plain-spoken solid slightly dull politicians -- enough with the chaos.
"...most people deceive themselves with a pair of faiths: they believe in eternal memory (of people, things, deeds, nations) and in redressibility (of deeds, mistakes, sins, wrongs). Both are false faiths. In reality the opposite is true: everything will be forgotten and nothing will be redressed. The task of obtaining redress (by vengeance or by forgiveness) will be taken over by forgetting. No one will redress the wrongs that have been done, but all wrongs will be forgotten." - Milan Kundera
@mastodonmigration anyone who successfully stops the roll of lawlessness that's existed since nixon will get my vote; even a billionaire.. Although if we really want to stop that lawlessness, we need to tax bilionaires out of existance.
Well...most of them need to be taxes out of billionaire hood. A few of them need capital punishment for their capital crimes.
While not advocating an assets tax on billionaires, Pritzker has been attempting to change Illinois 4.25% flat tax to a graduated tax with the earnings over $1M taxed at 7.95%
https://embed.documentcloud.org/documents/5762402-Illinois-Gov-J-B-Pritzker-s-Proposed-Graduated/
Tax billionaires robustly or dont bother.
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