Why not? The system is clearly flawed when it comes to policing as it inherently discriminates against non-whites and that’s a bias that won’t go away without starting entirely from scratch.

Maybe fix a broken system that can let two candidates with similar views elect the candidate with the least popular views? Nah, fuck it. That would take effort. Let’s blame the voters instead.

If that’s the margin of defeat then maybe we should be working to win those votes rather than shaving off republican votes in the suburbs. 

This is why it is naive to think a progressive running on socialism will win.

The construction unions aren’t going to support her, because she hasn’t lifted a finger for any one of their issues.

She hasn’t said one word about requiring publicly funded affordable housing developers to pay Davis Bacon prevailing wages (that is, union scale) to their workers

That’s kind of a big deal to the…

The federal judicial branch has ALWAYS been a weapon against the common people

Ever heard of the Dread Scott Decision? Or Plessy v Ferguson? Or the Danbury Hatters case?

Lifetime appointed judges - most of whom were corporate lawyers before they put that robe on - tend to skew against the ordinary people, pretty much as…

Strikes, particularly general strikes, have a way of strongly influencing what politicians do.

All those New Deal reforms that Roosevelt carried out?

He did so because of lots and lots of strikes by workers

Remember, we do all the work, and keep the economy moving - and when we shut down the economy, we throw the fear…

Except it’s not that simple.

Nixon (who, among other things, if elected would be the richest person to hold the governor’s office since Nelson Rockefeller) isn’t a socialist.

Hell, she’s not even pro union.

She’s “progressive”...on the same issues that a lot of upper class people are “progressive” on (legalized drugs,…

Because once the non-socialist is in, then they can have discussions on how not to implement socialist ideas. We just have to defeat the GOP so we can compromise on our most popular policies. 

Actually, the DSA is infinitely larger as a party, because it’s a dues-paying political party. The Democrats aren’t actually a party, at all. You can’t become a member of the Democratic party. You can register to vote as a Dem, but you can’t join the party and vote on the platform and candidates by paying dues, like…

Jeez. Come on. The quote refers to the history of Democrats co-opting leftists for volunteer work.

Why would a socialist organization waste time and resources working for a candidate who’s...not a socialist? How would advocating for a candidate who supports capitalism advance the socialist goal of dismantling capitalism?

And he was right. Obama gave us civilian drone strikes and Tim Geithner. Fuck you

Seriously, queer as fuck man here, fuck off.

98% of Americans don’t agree with you, you imbecile. You can’t even get 2% of the readers here to agree with you.

There is nothing special about you.

If your little fairytale was true, why would they then purchase political power to ensure that the rest of the country has a much harder place to start form than they did? Doesn’t that put them in enemy position?
Also, noone becomes a billionaire without blood on their hands.

Why? They actively work towards making it shitty for everyone not rich. Wouldn’t that be pretty much along the definition of enemy?

How pithy.

But when you say the rich are the enemy, you lose me.