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    1. keytotheboard on

      “Far-left”, duck CNN!

      This is the type of mainstream propaganda that has completely destroyed an integrity of news agencies. While the far-right has taken over and enacts actual fascist agendas with the help of billionaires, the big medias agencies like CNN start calling people who identify as “democratic socialists” as “far-left”. The false equivalence is sickening.

      There’s very little actual radicalism in the left of America. Utilizing democracy to advocate for BASIC social policy, like healthcare for all (something most other major countries have), is not “far” anything.

      Meanwhile, those on the right have attempted to assassinate the president multiple times. HAVE successfully assassinated Democrat leaders and their families, along with some more failed attempts. Actively build military and policing to forcibly enact their dehumanizing agendas, while also ignoring court orders to stop. While wearing masks and failing to identify, etc, etc.

    2. Primaries are how we exercise democracy. It makes it harder for lobbies to get settled in. More places the lobby has to diffuse money too. Some of Jeffries conservative neoliberal friends hate them

    3. As a matter of policy, I don’t agree with everything Mamdani says or stands for, but as a matter of shifting narratives and empowering the majority of Americans, outside of AOC and Bernie he’s the only one to do it with any clout.

      If the democratic establishment would rather implode than take on Trump over Mamdani they need to be voted out with great prejudice. 

      It’s insane that they’re letting these assholes speedrun fascism because they’re offended by someone who speaks common sense within their OWN PARTY.

    4. BlooregardQKazoo on

      DO IT.

      My upstate Congressman is Paul Tonko. I have never heard anyone say a bad word about the man. I once had someone that used to work for him tell me how they had to watch him like a hawk when they came back to NY because if they looked away they’d lose track of him and later find him at a local event talking to the people. By all accounts he is a *fantastic* representative of our district.

      That said, I want to see him primaried. He’s part of the old guard that needs to go. We badly need new, younger blood that recognizes the unique challenges posed by MAGA that didn’t exist 20 years ago.

    5. vagabending on

      This is good. And they’re not far left. They’re European center lol.

    6. Ok-disaster2022 on

      Far left how? Just because moderates are shifting far right doesn’t make any American progressive far left. If anything it makes them actually center left. 

    7. CompleteBuilding1156 on

      Life-long, straight-ticket Democratic voter here. I guess wanting candidates who aren’t useless, corporate-owned losers makes me „far left.“

      P.S. Liberals need to wake up and realize that corporate-owned media entities like CNN and the NYT are not their side. You can be informed without giving these Republican psy-ops your attention.

    8. 17syllables on

      “We need a manhattan project to find the left’s answer to Joe Rogan! Also, we’re existentially terrified of the mildest social democrats endorsed by podcasters like Nick Mullen!”

      Yeah, primary them all.

    9. Cool, do it. MAGA did this exact thing. There’s a reason that the Republicans have the younger more active and energetic party (not counting the corpse they have as president). After they were crushed two elections in a row by someone their base thought should have been barred from ever running because he was black they primaried everyone who wasn’t the most extreme version of the party.

      Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn’t but even when it didn’t work it scared the incumbents so much they bowed to the right to avoid having it happen again. A big issue with the left is that everyone recognizes we have too many old out-of-touch politicians unable to respond to their base but so few people actually get involved in politics at all and fewer vote.

      Every seat should be primaried. Run every Millennial and Gen Z person you can find and convince to run for something. Even if it’s just the head of the school board. Things will never change if the only thing people do is sit around and complain on social media and occasionally go to a protest with a goofy sign and a bad attitude.

      Yes there will be push back and yes the people in those positions will fight like hell to keep their cushy 6 figure jobs where they get to eat steak and work less than 100 days a year, but they’re unpopular enough that they’ll likely lose as often as they win and those who win will be aware that they can’t get by on just sitting around and coasting on name recognition and local papers endorsing them.

    10. alabasterskim on

      City Councilwoman Sandy Nurse is within his district. She should run. She’s a progressive endorsed in her council runs by AOC & Bernie, among others.

    11. Fuck yes!!! Get rid of them and send a message to the DNC. David Hogg was right. If you aren’t fighting for us, then get out of our way.

    12. defaultusername-17 on

      it’s ironic that the same sort of policies that FDR ran on are now considered „far left“.

      fuck this timeline.

    13. Pelosi has practically begged anyone to challenge her in a primary and she still easily coasts to a victory every time.

      Like the party itself generally doesn’t care if you try to primary someone in safe democratic districts. If they wanna try to primary Jeffries, go for it!

      The problem always comes down to primarying people in deeply purple or even red districts with a dem rep. Primarying them is super counterproductive unless there’s a specific extenuating circumstance around it. Like all the weirdos who kept wanting to primary manchin when he was in the Senate.

    14. DeathByGoldfish on

      Good. We need accountability on the left. If that means accountability through fear of being primaried, well, I’ll take it. Then we can begin to fight for accountability on the right.

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