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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
There are many people out there working to get, usually the more progressive, Democrat into elected offices these midterms, like Swing Left or r/bluemidterm. Those websites help to get people the information they need and tips on how to most efficiently contribute to the goal.
Life is unfair...On an unrelated note, the primaries in my state are set for about a couple weeks from now, and early voting starts later this week. Aside from the ones challenging our incumbent senators Ben Cardin and Jamie Raskin, I've seen some pretty promising candidates, even if a few are playing the whole "not a politician" angle more than I'd like.
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And with Net Neutrality dead in the water, watch how quickly people in red states will be bottlenecked or outright denied access to those wonderful websites.
They're linked to Cenk. Genocide denier, brocialist, and all around jackass. Then there's how they operate—they hire lobbyists to complain to legislatures about the influence of money in politics. And that's about it.
The reason I'm not more wary of them is because the better ones at least have ideas and plans. Going back to the incumbent senators' challengers, if they aren't playing the "not a politician" angle even harder, they're just completely lackluster. Among the worst I've seen was Utam Paul, whose platform is more or less "things are bad and we need to fix them. If I am elected I will fix the bad things."
Ballotpedia gives a good rundown of the Dem primary candidates.
Unfortunately, you'll still have to do some Googling for some of them if you wanna find out what they stand for.
edited 11th Jun '18 10:22:53 AM by PhysicalStamina
i'm tired, my friendRe. Democratic Lobbying I will withhold further comment on that until I have a spare couple of hours to do some research on American electioneering, so as not to clog up the thread with questions about every new name I hear. From what little I've seen of Cenk Uygur I thought he was very shouty and not particularly informative but seemed to have a few of the right ideas developed without much of an economic framework, which I suppose is somewhat typical of talking heads. Odd that he would wander off into genocide denial.
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I do see your point in terms of tactical voting, but at the same time I find it rather deeply distasteful just on the basis that if Zombie Eisenhower or Zombie Harold Macmillian showed up again to run for President or Prime Minister I might very well consider supporting them over your average Blairite Labour MP or centrist Democrat, although I suspect that these days they might well move to the other party anyway.
Don't talk about other tropers - Septimus Heap
More importantly a.) cenk has fully acknowledged the genocide in pretty unambiguous terms. In this video about the Myanmar genocide (around the 2:00 mark-3:20 mark he calls Erdogan out on his hypocrisy and flat out states that what the rakhine buddhists are doing to the rohiynga is no different than what the Turks did to the armenians
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YNzucJGfYGc
B.) he was one of the people who led the charge against San Harris and pointed out that he’s a bigot who thinks Muslims are less than human. He was doing this in 2014 when a lot of others still tried to pretend sam wasn’t a morally bankrupt shitheel
C.) a lot of his points about cops being racist and corporate media being dishonest aren’t exactly wrong
The guys a douche but he’s not satan
Hell Winston Churchill and GERALD FORD considered themselves young Turks. Are they genocide deniers
edited 11th Jun '18 11:33:00 AM by SeptimusHeap
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I believe that at this stage the points of similarity between the average Democrat and the average Republican must be moving towards zero if not a negative value where if one takes such-and-such a position the other will move to oppose him entirely to deny his opponent an unchallenged point. I know that most of the movement has been on the Republican side, there's still plenty of centrist Dems left.
An interesting article from Yanis Varoufakis
on Trumponomics that I feel makes a few good points and misses a couple of others.
Trump might actually keep the US economy rolling along nicely until 2020, if only because his wild fiscal flailing is hitting several of the right buttons by sheer chance. I don't believe that he's quite competent enough to envision the kind of worldwide trade restructuring YV is on about, though.
Considering Churchill’s racism the idea of him being a Agenocide denier isn’t at all surprising.
In the end Cenk will leads an organisation named after pro-fascists who carried out a genocide, he’s also been iffy about admitting it, at one point stating that he couldn’t comment on if it happened due to not being a historian, which is the exact same line used by many Holocaust deniers.
Plus he has serious team player issues, he’s lost his shit at Sanders for endorsing Clinton and often falls into bothsidism.
If he wants to found his own party that’s fine, but if he wants to be part of the Democrat party he needs to learn to play well with others.
Yeah he’s not in any way a progressive, he’s a conservative who identifies as a Democrat, he’s someone who in a saner electoral system would be part of a Center-right party.
As for denial of Israeli war crimes, welcome to every US politican ever, the US is bad about admitting war crimes (including its own), that doesn’t somehow justify people who claim to be progressive engaging in genocide denial.
edited 11th Jun '18 11:41:27 AM by Silasw
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranDid you miss the video where he not only admitted it happened but called Erdogan our on denying it? He also did ultimately vote for Hillary and was horrified she lost.
And are you saying that we should ignore that older guard democrats are doing things that are in many ways indistinguishable from republicans?
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edited 11th Jun '18 10:08:50 AM by TrashJack
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