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Go to your Democratic party and demand change.

Find a candidate that will stand on the basis of free healthcare, equal rights, the right to union, enforcing a higher minimum wage, enforcing paid sick leave and a minimum of 20 days holiday a year, and committing to lowering the cost of living.

Once someone stands up for this, push them to the moon for the next four years. Tell anyone else NOT on this platform to fuck off.

Essentially, America needs a Project 2029.

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skysurfer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I like the sentiment, but that is predicated on there being another election under the same rule set which would allow either party to win. If things come to pass with the unitary executive theory outlined in Project 2025 and the dictatorship desires that have already been declared, makes it unlikely votes will work to change political parties going forward…

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- Snapz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  And the “deep state”, meaning actual subject matter experts doing their jobs throughout government for years, regardless of current administration, are all going to be replaced by kid rock and vaping young republicans fresh from dropping out of their second semester in at The University of Southern Alabama State.
  
  That’s who’s going to be the dude inspecting your meat for e.coli and signing off on the clinical trials for you’ve perception meds - Gunner, Hunter and Ryder.
  
  Really don’t think anyone is considering the reality of how deeply fucked we’re going to be looking at the front door for obvious signs of trouble, while they leaf the crawlspace with fertilizer and gasoline and kick in the backdoor with flamethrowers in hand.
  
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- Murkbeard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Some of this outcome will depend on how effectively they execute. But let’s say they do. Then. in the paraphrased words of JFK:
  
  “He who makes reform impossible. makes revolution inevitable.”
  
  Now that isn’t a pretty future, or a nice future. But that’s what happens when a people resigns itself to performing democracy instead of protecting it.
  
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- x0chi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  You get it
  
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pjwestin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I’ll also add that you need to primary basically anyone that has been in politics for more than 15 years. There is just too much, “common sense,” in this party that is just wrong. In 2016, it was smart to run a centrist campaign that tried to move moderates away from Trump, and it failed. In 2024, they ran the same fucking campaign, and it failed.

There are well intentioned people that somehow still think that the 1992, third-way strategy will deliver gains through incrementalism, and it’s just not going to happen. Primary them, so that they at least have to contend with the new political realities. Trump picked up working class voters across across all demographics, not just the white working class. Everyone wants change; offer real change.

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