Given the opportunity to cut off funding for the government, the Democrats instead ensured that Trump's administration remained fully operational.

The Senate vote comes amidst a full-scale rampage by the Trump administration against the working class and democratic rights.

  • PeripheralGhost@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    Progressives need to co-opt the Democratic Party the same way the Tea Party and MAGA took over the GOP. Build a base, win primaries, and force the establishment to move left or get out of the way.

    • PurpleSkull@lemm.eeEnglish
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      12 days ago

      Say, for example, someone started a “Socialist” party. Running mainly on domestic issues such as worker’s rights, proportional taxation, rescinding the idea that corporations are people in the eyes of the law. But WITHOUT a clear stance on culture war baggage such as trans rights, DEI related talking points and “wokeness”. Those would be considered state issues and not a domain for the federal government since it distracts from actual geopolitical issues such as wars and climate change catastrophe mitigation.

      Would anyone be interested in that? Basically a party that focuses on issues in a similar way AOC does. Socialist, but not communist as I consider the US constitution and the right of elections untouchable. Liberal-socialist, in a way.