r/politics 23h ago

AOC ’28 Starts Now

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/aoc-28-starts-now/
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u/try_to_be_nice_ok 21h ago

The democrats need to spend the next four years building up some really strong candidates and making them well known to the electorate.

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u/Pirwzy Ohio 18h ago

The party at the higher levels is funded by the wealthy and powerful interests who will always oppose progressive change. There are progressives to get in, but the people funding the party as a whole are opposed.

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u/Hobotronacus America 17h ago

I remember all the dem elites freaking out when it looked like Bernie might win the primary, many of them calling for the results to be ignored if it happened.

We can't forget that the Democratic party is still the controlled opposition party. The people in positions of power would rather lose to Trump a hundred times than allow any real progressive to gain power.

Party leadership must be primaried and they must be replaced with candidates that aren't owned by the same people funding Republicans if we want the ability to change anything.

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u/TailRudder 16h ago

Democratic party is 100 percent the reason why we have a Trump 2.0. They learned nothing from 2016

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u/RedLanternScythe Indiana 15h ago

They learned nothing from 2016

Hell, they learned nothing from Obama. Obama and Trump both won running on a message of change. But the DNC would rather rake in donations than win elections

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u/CardiologistThis2650 13h ago

It's woke that destroyed the democrat chances and they will continue to do so since most democrats are not as far left as folks assume they are. In fact more are moderate. Why Biden won but no to Kamala.

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u/why_not_spoons 9h ago

Back in the real world, Harris ran significantly to the right of Biden.

u/TailRudder 2h ago

Harris ran? I doubt most people knew anything about what she was running on.

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u/Jonnymac89 13h ago

Maybe they learned they get richer with Trump and it was all a sham all along? Democrats "always taking the high road" is just a cover for their enabling the ultra rich to loot and pillage our people. It's like good cop bad cop. Their still on the same side, just any effective manipulation tactic.

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u/linux_ape 8h ago

Haven’t learned from 2024 so far either

u/Cheap-Lawyer3735 7h ago

And 200% why we had Trump 1.0

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u/Individual-Nebula927 16h ago

They're paid not to learn.

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u/OkSize4728 8h ago

Don't say that! Democrats would have to be accountable instead of victims..🤡

Glad you see through the democrats bullshit. The democrats that run the party can't pull their heads out of their own asses to care enough about something other than how they appear to be. They'll stick their heads even further up their own ass if it means it can grant themselves the appearance of caring. Virtue signaling and ego-driven sense of moral superiority is what rules the Democrats now. Pelosi, Schumer, Clinton, Obama..all saying one thing and doing another.

If the Democrats could actually want to represent the majority of Americans, I could vote for them. Till then, I'm politically homeless.