• Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    that is definitely a litmus test for where democratic voters heads are at, but that’s also definitely not control of party.

    Not yet, no. But there haven’t been a ton of races since trump won and it became undeniable that centrist democrats were both unprepared and unwilling to take on this challenge. The more progressives win, the more influence they can exert on the party.

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      7 hours ago

      The more progressives win, the more influence they can exert on the party.

      this has been the entire reasoning behind voting for the “lesser evil” for a majority of the last century and it has ended up with those unprepared and unwilling democrats in charge.

      why would it be different now?

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        6 hours ago

        this has been the entire reasoning behind voting for the “lesser evil” for a majority of the last century and it has ended up with those unprepared and unwilling democrats in charge.

        Centrists are no longer able to effectively keep progressives from winning.

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          5 hours ago

          some progressives have always broken through; that’s why we have bernie, aoc, omar, pressley, etc. and those numbers already outmatch the few recent victories that progressives have enjoyed.

          to be fair: i hope that you’re right, but i doubt it very much as i watch americans start to blame the epstein illuminati on russia.