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[–] timewarp@lemmy.world 56 points 6 days ago (2 children)

100%. It wasn't just the genocide though. They alienated the progressives. Kamala was scared to actually talk outside of mostly scripted messaging and interviews. They didn't provide and explain strong progressive policies. To me, Kamala was pretty indistinguishable from Joe Biden and other corporate Democrats. Her picking Tim Walz was a great move and she was way up in the polls. Had she leaned into him more, broke from Joe Biden (even thrown him under the bus a bit), and turned to other progressives for advice rather than the DNC corporate consultants, she would have won.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 33 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

The Dems will always alienate their leftward sections, they serve monopolist capitalists just like the republicans do. It's time for liberals to be radicalized and read theory, join orgs, and join leftists.

If anyone wants a good intro list on Marxist theory, I can provide one.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 39 points 6 days ago (1 children)

They always will, they serve the same donors and bourgeois powers. Marx and Lenin are vindicated by the passage of time. They were not clairvoyant, they just accurately analyzed the systems around them and saw what necessarily follows from their directions.

Everyone, get organized, read theory, learn self-defense and self-sufficiency. A good primer is Blackshirts and Reds. Defend yourselves and protect each other.

[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago (3 children)
[–] davel@lemmy.ml 14 points 6 days ago

Trump cares about Trump. That’s the long and short of his ideology. He only cares about genocide to the extent that it might benefit him, otherwise he’d rather play golf.

[–] OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml 13 points 6 days ago

Ah, so the choice was between genocide or genocide.

I guess if both sides are evil then people just rationally choose the side that's at least honest.

[–] thecam@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I thought Trump was garbage.

[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

¿Por que no los dos?

[–] bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net 12 points 6 days ago

This cycle the DNC, for the first time, could get the upwardly mobile suburbanite Reagan voters they've been salivating over my whole life. They don't care about winning, they're just happy that hippies don't vote for them anymore while Cheneys do. The DNC is not a political party now, it's a North Virginia cocktail party.