Asafum@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I don’t think there is a plan other than: Republicans will retain power at all costs. I don’t see anything changing for the positive.
If Democrats somehow do win, they’ll pull their usual “we need to look forward not backward” bullshit punishing no one Fox News, Newsmax, OANN, hosts will have visually disturbing bloody strokes as they scream every night about how the Democrats are coming for you and you conservative beliefs and the Democrats will lose again in the very next election, continuing the decades long trend of: Republicans break everything, Democrats talk about fixing it, have no power, do nothing, and lose again.
I’m fun at parties. :/
CainTheLongshot@lemmy.world 1 week ago
And this is why true grass roots movements are so powerful, instead of co-opted movements. Our local election cycles just finished, and there were some decent changes that occurred with city council members, who voted in favor of data centers, getting handed their asses. But guess what. The turn out was record setting, yet abysmal, sitting somewhere around 18-22%. You start putting in real progressives into positions of power, and not fake ones, and changes start to be made (a full on data center blockade is in the works), which gets people to realize they actually have influence, which they then get more involved, and increases turn out in the next election.
We need to send a message to these centrist Democrats so they realize they need us WAY more than we need them or their pandering to fascists for money.
The next fix i would say is that news media needs to become federated and/or open sourced. I’m not sure what this looks like, but probably something like a mix of Ground News (i currently pay monthly for btw) and Patreon, where journalist post their stories to a decentralized platform, that people subscribe to them. Idk, that sounds like that could get clickbait-y. But i would be willing to cut a streaming service off, and give some of that to something that’s decentralized and not owned by some billionaire handing down memos about what can or cannot be mentioned in a story, or straight up axing a story all together.
Then we keep hammering at the injustices and calling the leadership out and spreading the word, and putting up better progressives in the next election cycle.
But to answer the original OP’s question, like you, i don’t think the current Dem leadership has the spine to actually prosecute Trump or any of his cronies and billionaire Epstein buddies, or take a few pages from Trump’s play book and go the low road to hold those fake news organizations liable for things they say erroneously, or to prosecute corrupt foreign governments who helped facilitate this current mess.
Progressives should continue putting forth bills and amendments that force Dem leadership’s hand to show the people how they vote, which to no one’s surprise, it’ll be the same handful of useful rotational idiots. Then progressives should spend every cent raised campaigning in those districts to primary every one of them.