Anyone who takes corporate/big money donations, for one. Especially AIPAC or their affiliates.

I find it more shameful that the US has killed 38 million people in the last 50 years by enforcing economic sanctions that block access to food, medicine, and resources.

This is what you get voting for the lesser evil. You get evil.

This is a terrible and racist nickname. Jeffries doesn’t have anything in common with Tupac except they’re both black.

It’s time to abandon liberalism and turn the party of lesser evil into a pro-socialist party for good.

She’s a capitalist, first and foremost. Her interests align more with the oligarchs than they do with the people.

Nancy Pelosi skipped this vote to collect a lifetime achievement award 🤮

The tea party did that with the blessing and funding of oligarchs. Leftists don’t have oligarch funding.

First, given the technological and military gap, Israeli children are under no threat at all compared to Palestinian children. And second, calling for the dismantling of Israel and the creation of a multi-ethnic democratic Palestine would do more to protect all children than giving Israel the means to continue their genocide. Israel, as a settler colonial project, invites violent resistance against itself. Israeli would be more safe if the Israeli state didn’t exist.

I like your hope and I want to agree with it, but I also am wary of assuming that normal people are even as aware of news and politics as much as we would hope, let alone care enough about it to do something. I know I live in a bubble of people who care, and Lemmy obviously is its own very specific bubble. I don’t want to take for granted that the majority of people align with my worldview.

Agreed, there were many things that influenced people in a variety of ways, but cost of living is the one big thing that impacts everybody.

He’s a standard corporate Dem that looks out for oligarchs before working people. He recently opposed the ballot measure that would have put a one-time wealth tax on billionaires.

The public shifted because gas hit $6/gal. I don’t disagree that class consciousness is growing, but I don’t think it’s as prevalent in the real world as it is online. And more importantly, I don’t think the party apparatus of the DNC is remotely ready to hand over power to the progressive wing. They will use their oligarchs’ money to promote right wingers like Newsom.

A great candidate who can beat a post-Midterm Republican

Unfortunately, for the Democrats this means a right wing establishment Dem like Fetterman. In reality, this means a socialist who runs on working class policies.

Does the DNC support taxing the rich? Because the DNC’s opposition to a recent ballot measure in California tells me that they don’t.

I think you’re on to something. The working class are so desperate for working class policies that they run towards anyone who can convince them that’s them, then when those lies are revealed, they run in the opposite direction.

The DNC is progressive? Really? What rock do you live under? Holy shit Americans have zero class consciousness.

It is an antisemitic conspiracy. The Zionists’ insistence that Israel is for and by all Jews is an attempt to implicate all Jews in the genocide to avoid criticism.

Israel isn’t even the one driving. It’s Western capitalists and their need for an imperialist stronghold in the Middle East. Israel is a puppet state enacting the will of (mostly US) imperialists.

He does represent his supporters, but they aren’t you and me. They’re the oligarchs.