• Wes4Humanity@lemm.ee
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    10 days ago

    We’re never going to badger the current DNC corporate shills into working for the people… They’ll need to be replaced before we can hope to stop the ratchet effect and start making real change

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        10 days ago

        First step is making a place everyone can access and start collecting information… Any idea how to do that? I’m afraid I’m mostly tech illiterate

        2nd step: we need to map out who actually gets to vote for DNC leadership/membership

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          9 days ago

          How the hell is the first step not changing how we vote so people can vote outside the two party system and still have their votes counted against republicans?

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            Gotta get people into a position where they can make that change happen. Right now the Dems block such people from getting to such positions. Gotta replace the gate keepers with progressives or we’ll never get progressives into position to make changes.

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          Citizens United was upheld in a 5:4 voted by a conservative scotus in 2010, to overturn campaign finance laws written and passed by democrats in 1995 and 2002, and dems actually tried to put back in place some campaign finance regulations with H.R. 1 For The People Act.

          In fact, they passed it twice in the house, only for it to get blocked in the senate by Republicans both times.

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            Thanks for the info!

            I guess as a start, the DNC can and should run big money/dark money/bribe free primaries. But they refuse to run free and fair primaries because they only want their corporately anointed shills to make it to the general election. Changing how the primaries are done should be top of the list when we take over the DNC and replace the shills with progressives.