Comment on Schumer’s Retreat From a Government Shutdown Has Young Democrats Fuming

• yunxiaoli@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This assumes the party allows a primary challenger to any arbitrary seat. Usually they don’t for safe seats. Or at risk seats. Or any seats where the currently elected member is making them money.

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  • Zorque@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yes, we can dither and make excuses all we like, but if we never try, nothing happens anyways.

    Might as well try, yeah? Unless of course we just want to complain about how the system is unfair and not actually do anything to change it.

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    • yunxiaoli@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      And you think doing the exact same thing over and over is “trying”?

      We’ve been doing things to try to change the system, but mainstream Dems, white liberals, tend to call us radical criminals, terrorists, and damaging to progress. When we try we get shot in the back. When we try we get anonymously reported by someone ‘that agrees with our ideals but not our actions’.

      So hopefully now that you people will be suffering too, you might not stab us in the back this time when things get a little uncomfy for white liberals.

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      • Zorque@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I think coming at it from the angle of “doing the same thing over and over” is incredibly disingenuous.

        Voter participation is abysmally low. Local elections in my area have a turnout of 10%. And that’s a high. If people actually showed up, that’d be something different.

        Instead of pushing “do nothing and hope things change”, which is what we’ve been doing for decades, maybe we should have change and show the fuck up.

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• timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I would hope this pisses off enough people to actually go vote in primaries.

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• AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Difficult in a state where you have to declare a party (and “none” doesn’t count; they only recognize R or D)

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  • Zorque@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Sounds like it’s as easy as declaring a party. Are there some strange initiation rituals you need to go through to declare? Sacrifice a goat or something?

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    • AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      What if I don’t want to declare a party and remain independent?

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      • Zorque@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Then you can watch as things don’t change because of your stubborn pride.

        You can declare a party to vote in an election and remain philosophically independent, that’s always been allowed.

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      • lemonskate@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Well I suppose you could always whine about it online instead?

        It costs you nothing to register as a Dem so you can vote against these fuckers in the primaries, except maybe some worthless sense of idealogical purity.

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