🌍Peter 🔥 Antifa✊

Corporate Democrats Mobilize to Counter Rise of Democratic Socialists Within the Party | Common Dreams, Jun 26, 2026

“The progressive movement is winning across the country, from the heart of New York to Michigan to Maine,” said US Rep. Ro Khanna in response to centrist critics.

The corporate wing of the Democratic Party is looking to fight back after three insurgent progressive candidates knocked off establishment favorites in primary elections in New York this week.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/centrist-democrats-vs-progressive

Corporate Democrats Mobilize to Counter Rise of Democratic Socialists Within the Party | Common Dreams

Centrist Democrats organize against progressive insurgents in the Democratic Party, emphasizing support for capitalism and fiscal discipline.

Common Dreams
Jun 27 at 2:11pmWeb
Show threadOfficial Kakistocracy Jester 🪓1d ago

@PeterRu They only get a fire lit under their asses when they face a challenge from the left, never the right.

That says everything that needs to be known about them.

Show threadNetraven1d ago
@PeterRu why would people with wildly different ideologies wish to inhabit the same party? Shouldn't they differentiate themselves in some way by claiming one is the true democrat while the other is a corporate mouthpiece?
Show threadMissConstrue1d ago

@Netraven @PeterRu

Because we have a two party system by design. Third parties just split one of the others for a cycle or two, and then like mercury, it all flows back into a blob.

The thing is, the corporate Dems are neoliberal shills, and not big D democrats. The DSA is significantly closer to the barely beating heart of the liberal Left. Worker’s rights, livable wages, down with oligarchs…I mean, that’s what the Dems are supposed to stand for, not this corporate lickspittle nonsense.

Show threadCorvus 🇨🇦 🇺🇦1d ago

@MissConstrue @Netraven @PeterRu

I really like your simile "...and then like mercury..."

It seems to me that big D democrats *are* neoliberal shills.

It also seems that small D democratic small S socialists should take over the big D Democrats.

Show threadMissConstrue1d ago

@corvus @Netraven @PeterRu

That is what I'm hoping for. Except for Talarico, who is running to unseat the Texas Republican Cornyn, and I'm a Texan, so I'm working to push the Dem over the finish line...but my spend going forward will clearly delineated.

Support blank checks to Israel and I will not work, leverage my rolodex, or spend capital on your campaign.

Since Ronald Reagan, the neolibs have been saying the Left has to vote for them, because they're the "least worst decision"...and logically that statement is true, but it is a damning confession to make for 40 years.

At this point, there is no "least worse". There is "Awful" and there is "Complicit". They can stop being awful and complicit at will.

I'm not going to vote for anyone who is either, any more.

Show threadCorvus 🇨🇦 🇺🇦1d ago

@MissConstrue

It would be improper for me to voice my support for Talarico. Foreign election interference is only allowed if you are in the US administrative branch.

Show threadLeendaal1d ago
@Netraven @PeterRu neoliberal corporatists want to occupy all available parties.
Show threadWideEyedCurious 🇺🇸 💙 🇺🇦 & 🇨🇦1d ago
@PeterRu If only they’d used that same level of energy to fight the rising tide of fascism.
Show threadAncom-civ1d ago
@PeterRu The problem is going to be what can they do in the face of the racist right? The infighting is leaving an open door for the fascists to overthrow both, which is where we are here. The democrats still want to blame leftists for Trump rather accepting any concessions to the left leaning base they supposedly support.
Show threadChancerubbage1d ago

@PeterRu @mastodonmigration

They had best embrace it. They are not going to win any votes as they did in 30 yrs ago from anyone sitting on the fence of moderates and GOP, the GOP is now an abyss they will only fall into if they count on that.

Show threadDP01d ago

@PeterRu I have to admit that this is very confusing for me, a European, who's used to more than two parties and a political spectrum broader than conservative vs very conservative.

If these corporate Republicans prevail and come to dominate the party, what use would then be for the Democratic party? Or to put it in Churchill's words: "If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary."

Show thread🌍Peter 🔥 Antifa✊22h ago
@DP0
To make people believe they have a choice, when in reality there isn't one.