Connolly secured his position on the pivotal Oversight Committee after leaders in the House Democratic caucus—most notably former Speaker Nancy Pelosi—backed Connolly’s bid over Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez.
While other Democratic leaders have been fumbling for a response to Trump, the administration has been in a public feud with Ocasio-Cortez. Tom Homan, Trump’s handpicked immigration czar, has even called on the Department of Justice to investigate the congresswoman after she advised migrant communities of their constitutional rights.
In contrast to Connolly’s pro-compliance message, Ocasio-Cortez recently wrote, “America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.”
If we are going to lose anyways it’s time to make a third party. Call it the Progressive Party and continue to lose until democrats give up. These people literally only care about lining their pockets.
Yeah that seems to be a popular idea but it never gets anywhere after that.
My thought was, since the DNC organization exists and anyone can participate, we should y’know - take it over. Basically. Like it was intended.
So in the first example we’d have to build it from scratch (pros/cons) and in the second example, we’d have to deal with a fully functioning national party (pros/cons).
They essentially cancelled the last few primaries. Bernie was gonna win and they cancelled it. Biden wanted to run so they cancelled it. Biden backed out last minute so they cancelled it for Kamala. Shit is so undemocratic it’s crazy.
Bernie was gonna win and they cancelled it? Okay, Imma need to see some articles on that.
Basically unless you’re talking about Texas or California or heck even PA and Bernie is polling at ~90% and the DNC says “actually we’re cancelling due to rain” I’m going to find there’s no reason to assume Bernie was going to win and they cancelled primaries to prevent him.
That’s just - Fox News type of narrative. It’s lacking all context and the context it does have is childishly simple and outrageous.
Check out @WorkingFamilies@mastodon.social they might already be active in your area. Depending on the race, they sometimes recommend voting for the Democrat, as the “least bad” option, but they also run their own candidates.
How about the PEOPLES party?