Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world to Political Discussion and Commentary@lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 hours agoThis shits exhaustinglemmy.worldimagemessage-square29linkfedilinkarrow-up165arrow-down11
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minus-squareaberrate_junior_beatnik (he/him)@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up31·13 hours ago the DNC is more concerned about goddamned identity politics They don’t actually care about identity politics, this is a flimsy pretext to protect corrupt dems who are elected in deep blue territory
minus-squareLibra00@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·13 hours agoThis. Whenever you have a question about why some organization does something it’s generally a safe bet to start with ‘because money.’ In this case, holding onto the verified fundraising power of incumbents and not offending rich donors.
minus-squarePhoturis@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·11 hours agoSo, in light of this, and things like Citizens United, what are we supposed to do about all this? We can’t compete with those big dollars at scale.
minus-squareClinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 hours agoNo incumbents campaign. Sure we might blow up the party but it deserves it.
minus-squarethanks AV@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·10 hours agoIf you can stuff it with dollars you can stuff it with bullets much cheaper
They don’t actually care about identity politics, this is a flimsy pretext to protect corrupt dems who are elected in deep blue territory
This. Whenever you have a question about why some organization does something it’s generally a safe bet to start with ‘because money.’ In this case, holding onto the verified fundraising power of incumbents and not offending rich donors.
So, in light of this, and things like Citizens United, what are we supposed to do about all this? We can’t compete with those big dollars at scale.
Eat the rich, baby.
No incumbents campaign. Sure we might blow up the party but it deserves it.
If you can stuff it with dollars you can stuff it with bullets much cheaper