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• WraithGear@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  i don’t care about Hassan, it’s not about him, he is just yet another example of the larger effort the democratic party expends to fight against the progressive base from getting control.

  if your argument is that is effort at self sabotage, that has cost them the election due to voter apathy, i disagree. and the numbers show it.

  if the argument is that this internal sabotage isn’t what is stopping them from doing their job, then that means they are “dropping the ball” by choice

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  • null@piefed.nullspace.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    i don’t care about Hassan, it’s not about him, he is just yet another example of the larger effort the democratic party expends to fight against the progressive base from getting control.

    And yet you say that pushing back against him trying to inject himself into the part takes significant effort from the party that could be devoted to other things.

    If we agree that Hasan is a bad example of a person they’d want in the coalition, then who are these other “progressive” figures they are spending so much effort fighting against?

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    • WraithGear@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It’s not about finding a ‘perfect’ individual; it’s about the documented institutional effort to crush the progressive wing regardless of the candidate.

      If you want examples of who the party fights, look at the 2024 and 2026 primary cycles. The establishment (via groups like AIPAC and the Democratic Majority for Israel) spent over $100 million,the most in U.S. history, specifically to unseat progressives like Jamaal Bowman and Cori Bush. In the 2026 special election in New Jersey, they even turned on a former moderate like Tom Malinowski the second he suggested conditioning aid to Israel.

      This isn’t about Hasan, it’s about the fact that the DNC recently voted down a resolution to limit the influence of dark money and corporate PACs in Democratic primaries. They are effectively keeping the door open for Republican billionaire mega-donors (like Miriam Adelson) to fund ‘Democratic’ primary campaigns against progressives.

      When the party leadership chooses to protect that dark money pipeline instead of their own base, they aren’t dropping the ball, they are protecting their donors.

      My point stands: the establishment perceives a loss to a Republican as a manageable setback, but they perceive a progressive takeover of the party as an existential threat. The spending records prove it."

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      • null@piefed.nullspace.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        under attack by his closest aligning party, because he is threatening right wing democrats position, and gamesmanship of the vote

        So then we agree that this comment was either nonsense or bait.

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