At some point common sense should bring you , sorry, nominally intelligent people to appreciate that working with the DNC is… what's that word, oh yeah, stupid.
Unless you have a another motivation to act as a feckless victim in the face of obvious intractability and subversion by your putative fellow travelers… in America, money is usually the answer.
US citizens who are NOT US residents CANNOT donate to A Fight Worth Having! Even if you choose not to use ActBlue, the Web site requires a US address. Please provide some way for US citizens abroad who have no US address to contribute, also monthyl
"Hope and Change", "Yes, We Can". Sounds familiar, isn't it? Any strategy that ensures the Democratic victory in the next elections with election as many as possible of "Corbin's" or otherwise progressive candidates is fine. This is necessary to mitigate our economic, social, political, and environmental crisis. But this is just the minimum task, the first, necessary step on the path to defeating, or rather neutralizing MAGA. For all practical purposes, MAGA will be defeated only when it loses popular support, but when (if at all) this happens is an open question, which is not important at the moment. What is crucially important is not to entertain any hope that this electoral victory is sufficient to rectify or even mitigate the critical situation we are in as a nation and as a species. Reliance in the Democratic party in its current state is just silly, and a hope to change it is a fantasy. We should never forget that vigorous support of Biden in 2024 by Sanders and AOC, when all country witnessed his impotence, was an indirect contribution into Trump's electoral victory. Of course, their criticism would not make much of a practical difference, but they had to do it out of principle and solidarity with millions of the Democratic voters. Comparing to that "progressive" behavior, Mamdani's presumable opportunism and political maneuvers look quite innocent.
A major weakness of Corbin's strategy, a sure source of disappointment and, ultimately, a failure is reliance on specific people (good, honest, sincere, etc.) rather than a collective force, a movement, an organization, etc. Corbin's candidates, after being elected, remain legally responsible only to their voters (~27,000 in case of Hakeem Jeffries) and will use their individual judgement to make political decisions. On the other hand, popular or organizational candidates, after being elected, have many more ways to be influenced. MAGA is good example we should follow. If, by the 2032 elections we won't have an independent Left electoral political force and will still pursue the "transformation" of the Democratic party, we might end up in a much greater trouble than we currently in.
Your previous article on Mamdani's power play was enlightening and disheartening. His actions indicate he is in it for himself, his own position and promotion. What a fool. The Dem leaders will take his help, then drop him as quickly as he did Ossé, et al.
Weakening Iran is good for Israel, the Senate Democrats' major campaign donors. Never mind that if this war endures, it will be ten times worse that Vietnam.
And then what? Iran is weakened. So Zionist Israel can take it over? Did anyone honestly think their tanks would stop rolling at Gaza?
This war needs to stop. Zionists are equivalent to the imperial Japanese. If you read Truman's notes, he talks about how the programmed populace was never going to surrender, how Hirohito's own generals tried to kill him, rather than surrender.
Hegseth is a sociopath, Trump will do anything for money. Naturally, the Democrats caved, rather than show any backbone or real world care. They are useless. Unless you start at 7 or 8 digits in your bank account, the political parties do not care about you.
Jeffries' strongly worded letters are something we'd expect from a Simpsons satire of politics. I just read a fawning Politico piece about Rahm Emanuel, so now we're going to have to deal with his pro-corporate and pro-Israel nonsense in 2028, as well.
I don't think they got the message that "No Kings" applies to the court, as well.
This is the same story we were given with the Justice Democrats, put in people who will fight the establishment Democrats. That doesn't seem to be working. Our best chance in decades was Bernie and he caved. I don't see the point in supporting the Democrats in any way; they all get swallowed up by donors. Our political system is ruined and unless we remove corporate money, nothing will change.
"His best defense of Schumer was that nobody fundraises harder." It's because he's Jewish and goes to the Jewish billionaires for the money and they then want support for Israel. We are being run by Israel.
With this comment you’d fit in well with the white supremacist crowd. Look up antisemitic tropes and “wealthy Jews running the world” is at the top of the list. Schumer fundraises well not because he’s Jewish and gets his money from Jewish billionaires, but because fundraising is his primary focus. AIPAC has a lot of power in Washington, but you know who has more? CUFI (Christians United for Israel). There are more members of CUFI than there are Jews in the US. Christian nationalists are the real threat and they only support the state of Israel as a pawn in their apocalyptic visions. Please learn some history and consider more complex present dynamics.
Electorally speaking, the ONLY way to discipline the Democrat Party is to vote for a different party. In this case that is likely the Green Party. Everything else is 🐑 🐕. The Democrat Party CANNOT be reformed from within.
It’s great that you’re doing this and I agree 100%. But wouldn’t some consolidation of opposition PACs be a better strategy than everyone having their own? Would you consider joining forces with David Hogg’s Leaders We Deserve? His goals for that organization mirror your own. I feel like we’re maybe splintering too much which makes these PACs less effective. Clout is important, as we’ve all seen with AIPAC and the NRA. Thoughts?
I’m a recurring donor to your PAC. The Dem Old Guard needs to be kicked out, and all its enablers and its billionaire owners.
This system is broken. One side is evil, and the other side thinks it’s a game (that they’re rigging, but not for us). Meanwhile the world is burning. It’s a fight for existence.
You and any others that don't get it yet, the same donors/owners that both mainstream parties support are only interested in furthering the power and profits of Western corporations economic hegemony and unaccountable and immoral pursuit of profit and power…it's an empire with Capitalism as the religion of state.
Said another way, you are an imperialist, sorry.
And Democrat, DSA, Progressives are not “Leftists,” internationally Leftists are all anti-imperialist.
Establishment Democrats are not a legitimate opposition party. They are responsible for Trump being in office and this must change if we are to rid ourselves of these toxic fascists.
Uh huh, but why was it even close? Hmm? Because the establishment democratic party does not represent their base, they represent wall street, big corporate donors and their consultants, you know, the Epstein class, just like the repukes. They enable the rethugs at every opportunity, look at the refusal to vote on the war bill - democrat voters are almost unanimously opposed. Or how about their undying support for war mongering, genocidal, lunatic zionists? Or how about Medicare for all? Or how about the fact that instead of holding a primary, party elders selected Harris, who was such an awful candidate that she could not get a single solitary delegate when she did run for president...and this for an election they all wailed was existential. Good grief.
Like I said, they are not a legit opposition party as currently constructed. They suck and anyone paying the slightest attention realizes this. Voters do not owe their votes to a party that does not represent their interests, hence low turnout. It's not very complicated.
I agree with you. I am sick of most of them.
Stating the obvious…:
The national party operates on a whole different level from state and local parties.
Job 1 is getting the GOP out of power. It’s the party destroying the nation, not just Trump. Not even close.
Ever heard of Charlie Brown and his friend Lucy?
At some point common sense should bring you , sorry, nominally intelligent people to appreciate that working with the DNC is… what's that word, oh yeah, stupid.
Unless you have a another motivation to act as a feckless victim in the face of obvious intractability and subversion by your putative fellow travelers… in America, money is usually the answer.
US citizens who are NOT US residents CANNOT donate to A Fight Worth Having! Even if you choose not to use ActBlue, the Web site requires a US address. Please provide some way for US citizens abroad who have no US address to contribute, also monthyl
"Hope and Change", "Yes, We Can". Sounds familiar, isn't it? Any strategy that ensures the Democratic victory in the next elections with election as many as possible of "Corbin's" or otherwise progressive candidates is fine. This is necessary to mitigate our economic, social, political, and environmental crisis. But this is just the minimum task, the first, necessary step on the path to defeating, or rather neutralizing MAGA. For all practical purposes, MAGA will be defeated only when it loses popular support, but when (if at all) this happens is an open question, which is not important at the moment. What is crucially important is not to entertain any hope that this electoral victory is sufficient to rectify or even mitigate the critical situation we are in as a nation and as a species. Reliance in the Democratic party in its current state is just silly, and a hope to change it is a fantasy. We should never forget that vigorous support of Biden in 2024 by Sanders and AOC, when all country witnessed his impotence, was an indirect contribution into Trump's electoral victory. Of course, their criticism would not make much of a practical difference, but they had to do it out of principle and solidarity with millions of the Democratic voters. Comparing to that "progressive" behavior, Mamdani's presumable opportunism and political maneuvers look quite innocent.
A major weakness of Corbin's strategy, a sure source of disappointment and, ultimately, a failure is reliance on specific people (good, honest, sincere, etc.) rather than a collective force, a movement, an organization, etc. Corbin's candidates, after being elected, remain legally responsible only to their voters (~27,000 in case of Hakeem Jeffries) and will use their individual judgement to make political decisions. On the other hand, popular or organizational candidates, after being elected, have many more ways to be influenced. MAGA is good example we should follow. If, by the 2032 elections we won't have an independent Left electoral political force and will still pursue the "transformation" of the Democratic party, we might end up in a much greater trouble than we currently in.
Your previous article on Mamdani's power play was enlightening and disheartening. His actions indicate he is in it for himself, his own position and promotion. What a fool. The Dem leaders will take his help, then drop him as quickly as he did Ossé, et al.
Weakening Iran is good for Israel, the Senate Democrats' major campaign donors. Never mind that if this war endures, it will be ten times worse that Vietnam.
And then what? Iran is weakened. So Zionist Israel can take it over? Did anyone honestly think their tanks would stop rolling at Gaza?
This war needs to stop. Zionists are equivalent to the imperial Japanese. If you read Truman's notes, he talks about how the programmed populace was never going to surrender, how Hirohito's own generals tried to kill him, rather than surrender.
Hegseth is a sociopath, Trump will do anything for money. Naturally, the Democrats caved, rather than show any backbone or real world care. They are useless. Unless you start at 7 or 8 digits in your bank account, the political parties do not care about you.
Jeffries' strongly worded letters are something we'd expect from a Simpsons satire of politics. I just read a fawning Politico piece about Rahm Emanuel, so now we're going to have to deal with his pro-corporate and pro-Israel nonsense in 2028, as well.
I don't think they got the message that "No Kings" applies to the court, as well.
This is the same story we were given with the Justice Democrats, put in people who will fight the establishment Democrats. That doesn't seem to be working. Our best chance in decades was Bernie and he caved. I don't see the point in supporting the Democrats in any way; they all get swallowed up by donors. Our political system is ruined and unless we remove corporate money, nothing will change.
Bernie got screwed in the primaries when Clinton's camp rigged the election, as seen in real time via social media. Then again in 2020, when Obama politicked on Super Tuesday. All of this paved the way for Trump. Hopefully brighter minds than mine will figure out how to stop that from happening again. https://medium.com/@stephensonneveld/by-blocking-progressives-corporate-democrats-paved-the-way-for-republican-fascists-e51353a8291c
"His best defense of Schumer was that nobody fundraises harder." It's because he's Jewish and goes to the Jewish billionaires for the money and they then want support for Israel. We are being run by Israel.
With this comment you’d fit in well with the white supremacist crowd. Look up antisemitic tropes and “wealthy Jews running the world” is at the top of the list. Schumer fundraises well not because he’s Jewish and gets his money from Jewish billionaires, but because fundraising is his primary focus. AIPAC has a lot of power in Washington, but you know who has more? CUFI (Christians United for Israel). There are more members of CUFI than there are Jews in the US. Christian nationalists are the real threat and they only support the state of Israel as a pawn in their apocalyptic visions. Please learn some history and consider more complex present dynamics.
Still not getting it. ☹️
Electorally speaking, the ONLY way to discipline the Democrat Party is to vote for a different party. In this case that is likely the Green Party. Everything else is 🐑 🐕. The Democrat Party CANNOT be reformed from within.
It’s great that you’re doing this and I agree 100%. But wouldn’t some consolidation of opposition PACs be a better strategy than everyone having their own? Would you consider joining forces with David Hogg’s Leaders We Deserve? His goals for that organization mirror your own. I feel like we’re maybe splintering too much which makes these PACs less effective. Clout is important, as we’ve all seen with AIPAC and the NRA. Thoughts?
I’m a recurring donor to your PAC. The Dem Old Guard needs to be kicked out, and all its enablers and its billionaire owners.
This system is broken. One side is evil, and the other side thinks it’s a game (that they’re rigging, but not for us). Meanwhile the world is burning. It’s a fight for existence.
Both “sides” are of one coin.
You and any others that don't get it yet, the same donors/owners that both mainstream parties support are only interested in furthering the power and profits of Western corporations economic hegemony and unaccountable and immoral pursuit of profit and power…it's an empire with Capitalism as the religion of state.
Said another way, you are an imperialist, sorry.
And Democrat, DSA, Progressives are not “Leftists,” internationally Leftists are all anti-imperialist.
I think you replied to the wrong person
Follow the money-they take AIPAC money
Do you have receipts for this??
There’s a web site called AIPAC tracker. The info is readily available.
Establishment Democrats are not a legitimate opposition party. They are responsible for Trump being in office and this must change if we are to rid ourselves of these toxic fascists.
And I thought it was repukes that voted him in.
Uh huh, but why was it even close? Hmm? Because the establishment democratic party does not represent their base, they represent wall street, big corporate donors and their consultants, you know, the Epstein class, just like the repukes. They enable the rethugs at every opportunity, look at the refusal to vote on the war bill - democrat voters are almost unanimously opposed. Or how about their undying support for war mongering, genocidal, lunatic zionists? Or how about Medicare for all? Or how about the fact that instead of holding a primary, party elders selected Harris, who was such an awful candidate that she could not get a single solitary delegate when she did run for president...and this for an election they all wailed was existential. Good grief.
Like I said, they are not a legit opposition party as currently constructed. They suck and anyone paying the slightest attention realizes this. Voters do not owe their votes to a party that does not represent their interests, hence low turnout. It's not very complicated.