cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22077561
“I’m not interested in anyone who is moving further away from the center,” said Cindy Bass, a Pennsylvania committee member from Philadelphia. “The center is where we have to be.”
They’re not going to change a thing unless people make them.
Find your local state delegate and personally tell them how you feel a centrist is only going to guarantee another Republican victory. They are listed here: https://ballotpedia.org/Democratic_National_Committee
Bernie Sanders is working behind the scenes to get a progressive in there but he can’t do it alone.
Y’all have to let the DNC go. They are never going to do what is right for the people.
It’s time for a new party. How many times are we going to watch them fail us before we make a change?
Y’all are like Charlie Brown running up to kick the football right before Lucy pulls it away.
We’ve seen them fail us time and time again on issues that they absolutely had the power to fix.
This is the party of corporate interests. They don’t care about us. They’ve completely abandoned any platform of universal healthcare, they don’t give a flying fuck about the environment, and their border policy is worse than Trump’s somehow.
By repeatedly and blindly voting blue no matter who, we are enabling them to never make any changes for the good.
Your idealist solution is impossible in the practical world that we live in since first past the post voting will always favor the two gigantic parties. It is far easier to change the DNC into what we want then to create a third party