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Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 23 hours agoWe all need to start expecting oppo drops against progressive candidates with centrist primary runners-up the week or so before ballots finalize.
If they have progressive runners-up, expect the oppo drop in October the week before early voting opens.
Cruxifux@feddit.nl 23 hours ago
Yeah well of course. But the thing is, we can expect it all we want but we will see if it works. Because if it does then I don’t know what progressives in north america do to actually combat that within the realm of voting and democracy within the system we are in.
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
I expect an october surprise against Talarico. And it’s not gonna come from republicans.
If democrats can’t find any dirt on Talarico, they’ll fuck with his campaign funding instead.
Cruxifux@feddit.nl 22 hours ago
The circumventing of democracy through all this dirty bullshit is maddening. Theres no way through the system. If you go outside the system you’re branded as a violent terrorist of some kind. Damned if you do, damned if you dont. Without a mass movement with a large (majority?) support base from the population, which I dont think will happen in north america in my lifetime, we are just fucked.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 15 hours ago
Too bad half the working class became right-wing populists instead of left-wing populists because 90% of their interactions with leftists were just them being blamed for all the world’s woes on account of their whiteness.
Like maybe if you told them “we’re all working class, and those billionaires and corporations are the problem,” then maybe you’d get results.
But no, and whenever one of them complains about global financial elites, people accuse them of anti-semitism. Like, what the fuck? It’s anti-semitic to assume “global financial elites” refers specifically to jewish people, yet here we are…