The DNC is only keeping the far-right at bay, instead of actually stomping it dead for good.

Democrats do actively pass progressive reform, so who is really being duped? You who lets emotions and propaganda control your political outlook, or people who actually attempt to fight back by electing Democrats?

I’m sold. Let’s do it.

Which policy stance are you referring to?

That's not really fair. Democrats voting records and policy agenda are always on point. The fact they can't win elections to ensure their agenda is the problem.

I don't think so. If the DNC wants, they could easily win but they won't try.

Haha, no we can't. People enjoy the culture war way, way too much. Reddit and Lemmy are living proof. I see far more left vs right content than rich vs poor on here.

What?!

The entire point of the democratic party is to get it's members elected.

And theyre a private party with no obligations to anyone else.

It's the parties job to convince voters to vote. It's not the voters job to always pick the lesser of two evils, especially when both parties use every opportunity to become more "evil" by siding with the wealthy more than regular citizens.

WE need to DO THIS. This is OUR JOB.

We're not the ones who just wasted $1,500,000,000 and paid ourselves millions.

If it's our job why the fuck are we paying people fighting against us to do it poorly?

It's absolutely the Dems job to not put up pathetic, loser candidates

I cannot believe that the democrats have completely disregarded the lead-up to, the years of the trump presidency, and everything that has followed.

One thing has been starkly and objectively true - republicans place party before country. Even if it hurts them or flies in the face of everything they claim to believe in, they’ll still vote republican. They have internally equated being a democrat to being lower than a pedophile, lower than a felon, lower than a nazi.

So no matter how far right the democrats attempt to go, the conservatives absolutely don’t give a fuck. They will set themselves on fire before they vote democrat. The Democratic Party needs to stop wasting time on them.

And before the usual, predictable chorus of "RIGGED PRIMARIES" comes up, no, the DNC does not play fair, but that also doesn't mean they were stuffing the ballot boxes.

Rigged doesn't mean predetermined outcome, it means unfair odds. Claw machines are rigged. That doesn't mean you can't win a prize, but it does mean the odds that you'll win are very low.

They framed things in an anti-Bernie way...

That is a weird way to describe the Clinton campaign secretly taking over the party in 2015 and running the primary she was competing in. Here are excerpts from Donna Brazile's book, where she lays out exactly how Hillary took over the DNC. It's not the first time I've given you this information, but since you choose to ignore it, I'll keep sharing it.

When the party chooses the nominee, the custom is that the candidate’s team starts to exercise more control over the party...When you have an open contest without an incumbent and competitive primaries, the party comes under the candidate’s control only after the nominee is certain. When I was manager of Al Gore’s campaign in 2000, we started inserting our people into the DNC in June. This victory fund agreement, however, had been signed in August 2015, just four months after Hillary announced her candidacy and nearly a year before she officially had the nomination.

The agreement—signed by Amy Dacey, the former CEO of the DNC, and Robby Mook with a copy to Marc Elias—specified that in exchange for raising money and investing in the DNC, Hillary would control the party’s finances, strategy, and all the money raised. Her campaign had the right of refusal of who would be the party communications director, and it would make final decisions on all the other staff. The DNC also was required to consult with the campaign about all other staffing, budgeting, data, analytics, and mailings.

Officials from Hillary’s campaign had taken a look at the DNC’s books. Obama left the party $24 million in debt—$15 million in bank debt and more than $8 million owed to vendors after the 2012 campaign—and had been paying that off very slowly. Obama’s campaign was not scheduled to pay it off until 2016. Hillary for America (the campaign) and the Hillary Victory Fund (its joint fundraising vehicle with the DNC) had taken care of 80 percent of the remaining debt in 2016, about $10 million, and had placed the party on an allowance.

As Hillary’s campaign gained momentum, she resolved the party’s debt and put it on a starvation diet. It had become dependent on her campaign for survival, for which she expected to wield control of its operations.

Thats cause they are running worthless positions. They havent had a real primary since 2008, and have the most bland, status quo politicians. Status quo doesnt work when everyone is struggling to survive.

I think the lack of turn out is due to apathy.

Thing is the left would turn out to vote if any of the candidates represented their interests. Becoming bootleg Republicans isn't how they win votes.

By your logic absenteeists should actually vote republican if they want democrats to court their vote.