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AOC and Bernie Sanders draw thousands of people at 'Fighting Oligarchy' rally in Denver
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Can these guys please just start their own political party and maybe start dragging the US out of the two party hellhole while saving it from acute fascism?
Id be cool with them funding progressives to primary everyone in the Democratic party who's a chump and an idiot.
So like 80% of the party.
They would have the added benefit of not having another set of oligarchs behind them hoping that this current set of far shittier oligarchs gets removed.
Bernie doesn't need the billionaire class, he showed that by the grassroots donors that supported his 2016 campaign.
If they actually broke off and formed the Solidarity Party that sought to pick the best platforms from both the D and R parties and pursued policies of wealth redistribution and breaking down barriers to a true free market system, they would win.
Are there any actual good R platforms? For the last 20 years or so, their platform has basically been, whatever hurts the democrats, or is the opposite of the democrats. I feel like you have to go back pretty far to find R policies that are actually just differences on how we should govern.
First past the post systems will always end up in a two party system. We have to get rid of it or it will always end that way.
Republicans reshaped their party from the inside via the Tea Party dorks. We're all worse off for that, but - at this point, the only path forward is for Democrats to do the same, reshape the party by going hard left, vehemently attack the corporate Democrats (almost all of them).
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Didn't agree 100% until November, but now 100% agree.
Centralism and incrementalism are full-on failures. If we're going to lose we might as well go out fighting.
The high road is gone.
"When they go low, we go low...ish."
I think at this point if they go low, you're going to need to sweep the fucking leg. Looking in from the outside you're not far away from all out authoritarian hellhole.
Make no mistake, I see it as very likely that this problem doesn't get solved without significant violence.
That way lies obscurity.
They're shilling for the Democrats... again... and I fully expect them to obediently step aside when the Democrats tell them that they need to field a more moderate candidate... Also again.
Yeah, as much as I want to be excited by the numbers, I've been on this ride before. Bernie will never take his movement to the next level, and AOC won't rock the boat hard enough to upset Mama Bear. I'd love to be proven wrong though...
Same here, but as the saying goes: fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.
It'll be thrice where Bernie is concerned since his age will be used to justify him not being the candidate and ditto with AOC.