• ClathrateG [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    bypass paywall if u want to read that crap https://archive.is/NQO7r

    Dr. El-Sayed has made running against AIPAC a centerpiece of his candidacy. On MS NOW on Wednesday, he said the links between Israel and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were “inextricable.”

    Wow really???

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      This is a rebuttal of the idiot lib talking point that the genocide is only because netanyahu. El-Sayed is tying it to Israel and Israelis. It’s a good thing to say.

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    This is why I don’t understand why the DSA is trying to work within the DNC. The DNC has made it clear that they’d rather let the Republicans win than give Leftistst a chance.

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      The Democratic base sits comfortably to the left of its leadership, so sometimes DSA candidates win the primaries (more and more these days too). That’s useful for raising the contradictions within the party, it forces party leadership to reveal how much they hate their own base. If the goal is to split the party and take every dissatisfied Democrat with them on their way out, it’s a good strategy.

      I worry they think they can actually take over the party from the inside with insurgent candidates, though, and that won’t work.

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        iirc they’re split between a few factions including actual entryists (derogatory) and ones that think forcing a split will benefit the further left.

        i think breaking the democratic party is worth a shot and it would probably be good for revolutionary movements even though bourgeois electoralism is a dead end in and of itself.

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        I worry they think they can actually take over the party from the inside with insurgent candidates, though, and that won’t work.

        There are surely some (many? ) who think this, but it seems like most (including Hasan, their lead propagandist) have the first view you presented.

        The Democratic party is just a bunch of wealthy donors at it’s core, ofc. Even if DSAers got the upper hand in Democrat leadership, that core donor base would be the ones to pull out. Less likely to happen, but if it magically worked out that way, it is still a win for the broader left

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    Hell yes, rupture the party to pieces, take off the mask LETS GOOO! lets-fucking-go

    The theory that the ideological rigidity of neolibs can ironically be utilized to break apart the democratic party is starting to bear fruit

    These rats really will torpedo the two party system just to guarantee the socdems don’t hold national institutional power, thank God for the ideological purity of libs

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        The schismatic signaling alone is poisonous to those libs who took ‘Vote Blue No Matter Who’ seriously and I don’t see any reason not to take their declaration of war on the socdems seriously

        Michigan has always been a sore spot for the DNC, they themselves put all their political capital behind the notion progressives couldn’t win swing states. In that context, rubber is about to hit the road and they know it

        If they’re gonna start a purge, a midterm season as significant as this one might as well be the catalyst

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          Structurally, I don’t know if they can do a purge. The party doesn’t have many mechanisms to discipline its members.

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            Neolibs control the system and the structures, and animated by anti-communism nothing will stop them, because nothing exists to stop them

            They’ll invent the most elaborate horseshit out of thin air and the socdems will look on dumbfounded as if the neolibs hadn’t pushed their shit in back during 2016 and 2020

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    Politics is all about money. They always need a reason to get more money. Doesn’t matter if it’s the winning party or the loosing party. Just keep funding the machine.