ManyRoads@lemmy.sdf.org to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 天前Martin Niemöller: "First they came for the Socialists..."encyclopedia.ushmm.orgexternal-linkmessage-square31fedilinkarrow-up1171arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up1166arrow-down1external-linkMartin Niemöller: "First they came for the Socialists..."encyclopedia.ushmm.orgManyRoads@lemmy.sdf.org to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 天前message-square31fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarePronell@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·11 天前That’s fair. I’d just rather see the left try to unify then assign blame and fall further to infighting. We will need all the allies we can muster to pull through this.
minus-squareeestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·10 天前I think the left is relatively united by the left’s standards. The issue is that the Democratic party establishment is not part of the left.
minus-squareClent@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 天前Then we take it and remake it. There is no time to create a new party and all recent efforts have failed.
minus-squareeestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 天前I think that needs to take the form of other groups who are willing to vote in coalition with the democrats, but not part of them. The democrats are far better than the Republicans at exactly one thing: crushing their base and excluding it from power.
minus-squareClent@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 天前I think the fastest option is to take over the party. If the right wing nut jobs could do it it the republicans, certainly we can as well.
That’s fair. I’d just rather see the left try to unify then assign blame and fall further to infighting.
We will need all the allies we can muster to pull through this.
I think the left is relatively united by the left’s standards.
The issue is that the Democratic party establishment is not part of the left.
Then we take it and remake it.
There is no time to create a new party and all recent efforts have failed.
I think that needs to take the form of other groups who are willing to vote in coalition with the democrats, but not part of them.
The democrats are far better than the Republicans at exactly one thing: crushing their base and excluding it from power.
I think the fastest option is to take over the party. If the right wing nut jobs could do it it the republicans, certainly we can as well.