Nancy Pelosi Gets a Surprising New Primary Challenger
Saikat Chakrabarti, AOC's former chief of staff, thinks the Democrats need a bolder vision.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26024422
Saikat Chakrabarti, AOC's former chief of staff, thinks the Democrats need a bolder vision.
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I don't have much hope in the voters. Last time a great challenger came along, Shahid Buttar in 2020, they still elected the geriatric choice. The DNC and Dem voters are the fucking worst. I mean, as long as you pretend the racist, fascist, ignorant, magats on the other side of the aisle don't exist.
Shahid Buttar
This dude fucking sucked. Like I'm glad pelosi got challenged, but he wasn't the guy. I'm much more excited about Chakrabarti. Though that is mostly association with AoC and tabula rasa projection.
I was happy to see anyone challenging Pelosi. I agree Chakrabarti is a much better choice. Not my district, but I'll cross my fingers that the voters do the right thing.
You would think that the Democrat's consistent record of utter failure would count for something, but I think it has the opposite effect. The worse things get, the more insecure people feel. Insecurity makes voters risk-averse. Republicans capitalize on that with calls for a return to an American that never really existed. Democrats capitalize on it by making Democratic voters scared of new leadership.
I try to explain it with AIDS as an example. AIDS is a horrible disease, but it doesn't kill you. It just sets you up to die from another opportunistic infection like pneumonia. The fascists are pneumonia, and the neoliberals are AIDS. It's the fascism that kills you, but it's the neoliberalism that was the underlying cause that should have been dealt with.
Incumbents are hard to unseat.
Especially someone like pelosi who has been around so long.
I know that is true about incumbents, but I just don't understand why. All a voter has to do is look at their voting record. We don't need to listen to a fucking thing an incumbent says. Just look at the voting record. But voters can't even be fucked to do that.
Especially if you're a progressive running against a centrist incumbent.
I think that last line is in the DNC's mission statement
Oh they acknowledge that Republicans are fascist bigots all the time, they just keep trying to work with them. Always trying to compromise with them instead of voting against them.
Only way to get your own donors' pork into the bill when you don't have a majority